Youth: And Two Other StoriesDoubleday, Page & Company, 1903 - 339 pàgines |
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Pàgina xi
... of con- science , to conceive the existence of Captain Whalley's personality and to relate the manner of his end . This statement acquires some force from the circumstance that the pages of that story - a fair half AUTHOR'S NOTE xi.
... of con- science , to conceive the existence of Captain Whalley's personality and to relate the manner of his end . This statement acquires some force from the circumstance that the pages of that story - a fair half AUTHOR'S NOTE xi.
Pàgina xii
... half of the book-- are also the product of experience . That experience belongs ( like " Youth's " ) to the time before I ever thought of putting pen to paper . As to its " reality , " that is for the readers to determine . One had to ...
... half of the book-- are also the product of experience . That experience belongs ( like " Youth's " ) to the time before I ever thought of putting pen to paper . As to its " reality , " that is for the readers to determine . One had to ...
Pàgina 9
... half - a- crown to tow our skipper alongside ; but it was Mrs. Beard that came up the ladder first . They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour . I was never so surprised in my life . " It appears ...
... half - a- crown to tow our skipper alongside ; but it was Mrs. Beard that came up the ladder first . They had been floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour . I was never so surprised in my life . " It appears ...
Pàgina 26
... Half of a fife - rail had been shot through the foresail , and the sky made a patch of glorious blue in the ignobly soiled can- vas . A portion of several boards holding together had fallen across the rail , and one end protruded ...
... Half of a fife - rail had been shot through the foresail , and the sky made a patch of glorious blue in the ignobly soiled can- vas . A portion of several boards holding together had fallen across the rail , and one end protruded ...
Pàgina 28
... half good enough . No ; it was something in them , something inborn and subtle and everlasting . I don't say positively that the crew of a French or Ger- man merchantman wouldn't have done it , but I doubt whether it would have been ...
... half good enough . No ; it was something in them , something inborn and subtle and everlasting . I don't say positively that the crew of a French or Ger- man merchantman wouldn't have done it , but I doubt whether it would have been ...
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Pàgina 96 - It was unearthly, and the men were — No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it — this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity — like yours — the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.
Pàgina 118 - He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, 'must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings - we approach them with the might as of a deity,' and so on, and so on. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,
Pàgina 114 - ... the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.
Pàgina 64 - Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps. Black rags were wound round their loins, and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails. I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. Another...
Pàgina 150 - If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.
Pàgina 116 - You can't understand. How could you? — with solid pavement under your feet, surrounded by kind neighbours ready to cheer you or to fall on you, stepping delicately between the butcher and the policeman, in the holy terror of scandal and gallows and lunatic asylums...
Pàgina 4 - You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little— not a thing in the world— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination.
Pàgina 39 - English. The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe. I could hardly see him, but began to think he would work himself into a fit. 'Suddenly he ceased, and I could hear him snorting and blowing like a porpoise. I said ' "What steamer is this, pray?" ' "Eh? What's this? And who are you?" ' "Castaway crew of an English barque burnt at sea. We came here tonight. I am the second...
Pàgina 37 - ... ice, shimmering in the dark. A red light burns far off upon the gloom of the land, and the night is soft and warm. We drag at the oars with aching arms, and suddenly a puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange...
Pàgina 119 - Well, don't you see, he had done something, he had steered; for months I had him at my back — a help — an instrument. It was a kind of partnership. He steered for me — I had to look after him, I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became aware when it was suddenly broken.