 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 167publié par - 1912Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1899 - 1120 pages
...; 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 pages
...; 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 pages
...; 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...; 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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Daniel J. Schneider - 1975 - 256 pages
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 | Fredric Jameson - 1982 - 316 pages
...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... | |
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