 Siamese navy; and in all they said - in their actions, in their looks, in their persons - could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence.  The Quarterly Review - Page 167redigeeritud poolt - 1912Full view - About this book
 | 1899 - 1120 lehte
...; and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1900 - 406 lehte
...; and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1905 - 408 lehte
...; and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 652 lehte
...stands curiously remote. The test he applies to his characters is an old and a searching one—the Sea's. In what is perhaps his most marvellous piece...are needed very much. The safety of the ship, the fulifiment of a trust, the life of all hands, depend upon them. Many points of character which seem... | |
 | 1913 - 874 lehte
...his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself" (p. S). That is what Conrad does to the men In his books,...His final judgment is as extraordinarily simple as bis dissection of character and marshalling of evidence Is complex. For what is it, to be a good seaman... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1920 - 446 lehte
...and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their i\ persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of \\ decay, the determination to lounge safely through \l existence. ty To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 540 lehte
...; and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 440 lehte
...navy; and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. To Jim that gossiping crowd, viewed as seamen, seemed at first more unsubstantial than so many shadows.... | |
 | Fredric Jameson - 1982 - 316 lehte
...white. ... In all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. [8-9] That Jim must initially test himself against these two categories, that neither is adequate to... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 lehte
.... and in all they said — in their actions, in their looks, in their persons — could be detected the soft spot, the place of decay, the determination to lounge safely through existence. As in the above passage, it is characteristic of Conrad to introduce parallel phrases with recurring... | |
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