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Pàgina 25
... idea and in his placid ignorance of our agitation . He motioned us forward with a command- ing gesture , and went to take the wheel himself . " Yes ; that was the first thing we did - trim the yards of that wreck ! No one was killed ...
... idea and in his placid ignorance of our agitation . He motioned us forward with a command- ing gesture , and went to take the wheel himself . " Yes ; that was the first thing we did - trim the yards of that wreck ! No one was killed ...
Pàgina 51
... idea only . An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretence but an idea ; and an unsel- fish belief in the idea - something you can set up , and bow down before , and offer a sacrifice to . • He broke off . Flames glided in the ...
... idea only . An idea at the back of it ; not a sentimental pretence but an idea ; and an unsel- fish belief in the idea - something you can set up , and bow down before , and offer a sacrifice to . • He broke off . Flames glided in the ...
Pàgina 53
... idea . The snake had charmed me . " You understand it was a Continental concern , that Trading society ; but I have a lot of relations living on the Continent , because it's cheap and not so nasty as it looks , they say . " I am sorry ...
... idea . The snake had charmed me . " You understand it was a Continental concern , that Trading society ; but I have a lot of relations living on the Continent , because it's cheap and not so nasty as it looks , they say . " I am sorry ...
Pàgina 65
... idea was to let that chain - gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill . You know I am not particularly tender ; I've had to strike and to fend off . I've had to resist and to attack sometimes - that's only one way of resisting ...
... idea was to let that chain - gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill . You know I am not particularly tender ; I've had to strike and to fend off . I've had to resist and to attack sometimes - that's only one way of resisting ...
Pàgina 67
... idea at all connected with it ? It looked startling round his black neck , this bit of white thread from beyond the seas . " Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up . One , with his chin propped ...
... idea at all connected with it ? It looked startling round his black neck , this bit of white thread from beyond the seas . " Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up . One , with his chin propped ...
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Pàgina 62 - In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech— and nothing happened.
Pàgina 51 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...
Pàgina 66 - They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
Pàgina 136 - She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
Pàgina 162 - Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha. Nobody moved for a time. "We have lost the first of the ebb," said the Director suddenly. I raised my head. The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky— seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.
Pàgina 86 - ... from the recesses of the land. The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like a rioting invasion of soundless life, a rolling wave of plants, piled up, crested, ready to topple over the creek, to sweep every little man of us out of his little existence. And it moved not. A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter...
Pàgina 67 - Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One, with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if over-come with a great weariness; and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence.
Pàgina 37 - ... And I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like 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 55 - A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar. I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to. Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.
Pàgina 82 - Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams ...