 HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 3731899Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Norman Sherry - 1966 - 376 pàgines
...certain outstanding physical features which are stressed by Conrad. Jim is described in these terms: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging * The chief clerk of the firm of Rodyk and Davidson.... | |
 | Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 pàgines
...qualification and development. This method can be seen operating in the opening words of Lord Jim: "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull." Conrad is following the traditional epic... | |
 | Christopher Brumfit, Ronald Carter - 1986 - 308 pàgines
...dairy, and the troop of milkers, regular and supernumerary, were all at work. (Hardy: The Withered Arm) He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. (Conrad: Lord Jim, chapter 1) (The first... | |
 | Jerry George - 1994 - 68 pàgines
...Norway, Sweden, Denmark and France. Joseph Conrad begins his novel by describing his main character: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. (Lord Jim} The Semi-colon This punctuation... | |
 | J. Hillis Miller - 1995 - 308 pàgines
...gems are!" said Dorothea.36 % He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, Character and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.37 In Great Expectations the figure is "pip"... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 2002 - 184 pàgines
...Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself," does it for me with Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway. "He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull," does it for me with Conrad's Lord Jim. "I... | |
 | Michel Ballard - 2003 - 294 pàgines
...solution qui a été adoptée par Henriette Bordenave, traductrice du roman de Conrad, Lord Jim : He wus an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders. (Conrad 1 900/ 1 97 1 : 9) // Il mesurait six pieds, à... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2005 - 512 pàgines
...sympathy of which I was capable, to seek fit words for his meaning. He was 'one of us'. JOSEPH CONRAD June Chapter i He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet,...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner... | |
 | Emily Hutchinson - 2005 - 66 pàgines
...the following example of a character description. THE OPENING PARAGRAPH OF LORD JlM BY JOSEPH CONRAD He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully...stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud, and his manner... | |
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