 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...character now : ' When I grow up I shall go there.' ' Mr. Conrad's genius, his consciousness of his destiny, may be said to have come to birth in that... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 244 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself, with absolute assurance...to go there — as if the sin of childish audacity were to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 232 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the un solved mystery of that continent, I said to, myself, with absolute assurance...quarter of a century or so an opportunity offered to go there—as if the sin of childish audacity were to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there:... | |
 | Alfred A. Knopf, James Huneker - 1914 - 36 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...to go there — as if the sin of childish audacity were to be visited on my mature head. ti Yes I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls."... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 266 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...character now : ' When I grow up I shall go there.' " Mr. Conrad's genius, his consciousness of his destiny, may be said to have come to birth in that... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 378 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...childish audacity was to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls which in '68 was the blankest of blank... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1926 - 168 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...childish audacity was to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls which in '68 was the blankest of blank... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 170 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...quarter of a century or so an opportunity offered to go there—as if the sin of childish audacity was to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there:... | |
 | Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - 1927 - 384 pàgines
...manners and customs; she afterward published several others, besides translations from the Polish. myself with absolute assurance and an amazing audacity...of childish audacity was to be visited on my mature head.1 Perhaps, as Marlow says, a map of the Congo seen in a shop window in Fleet Street re-awoke these... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 380 pàgines
...of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance...childish audacity was to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls which in '68 was the blankest of blank... | |
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It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance and an amazing... 
