 | Joseph Conrad - 1902 - 238 pàgines
...up in a street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. /He sailed over the surface of the oceans as some men go skimming over the years of existence and sink at last into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 558 pàgines
...street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Captain MacWhirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some...may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate — or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea. II... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 304 pàgines
...street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Captain Mac Whirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some...may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate — or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea. n... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 298 pàgines
...street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Captain Mac Whirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some...may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate — or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea. n... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 306 pàgines
...row, have gone without ^Jiis dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Captain Mac Whirr had sailed over the surface of the "'oceans as some men go skimming over the years of existence to sinkgently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 306 pàgines
...pecans as some men go skimming over the years of existencejx^sink gently into a placid gravje^ignorant of life to the last, without 'ever having been made to see alHt may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land_such men thus fortunate... | |
 | Martin Price - 1983 - 400 pàgines
...another simple, inarticulate man, Captain MacWhirr, Conrad describes him as one who has sailed over the oceans "as some men go skimming over the years...the last, without ever having been made to see all that it may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on the sea and land such men... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 pàgines
...failure, they may crack. When they are not forced to do so, then, as Conrad elsewhere put it, they "go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently...may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate — or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea."25... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 324 pàgines
...street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Captain MacWhirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some...may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror. There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate - or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea. II... | |
 | James B. Stockdale - 2013 - 252 pàgines
...is in escaping the life Captain McWhirr had programmed for himself in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon: "to go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently...to see all it may contain of perfidy, of violence, of terror." And the author adds, "There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate — or thus disdained... | |
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MacWhirr had sailed over the surface of the oceans as some men go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain of perfidy, of violence, and... 
