The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 4Doubleday, Page, 1921 |
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... light . A bad passage . • A Departure , the last professional sight of land , is always good , or at least good enough . For , even if the weather be thick , it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows . A ...
... light . A bad passage . • A Departure , the last professional sight of land , is always good , or at least good enough . For , even if the weather be thick , it does not matter much to a ship having all the open sea before her bows . A ...
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... light air - bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake , and vanish into a great silence in which your ship moves on with a sort of magical effect . They pass away , the days , the weeks , the months . Nothing but a gale can disturb the ...
... light air - bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake , and vanish into a great silence in which your ship moves on with a sort of magical effect . They pass away , the days , the weeks , the months . Nothing but a gale can disturb the ...
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... light sails were coming off her . " And the other , an older man , uttered grumpily : " No fear ! not while the chief mate's on deck . He's that deaf he can't tell how much wind there is . " And , indeed , poor P , quite young , and a ...
... light sails were coming off her . " And the other , an older man , uttered grumpily : " No fear ! not while the chief mate's on deck . He's that deaf he can't tell how much wind there is . " And , indeed , poor P , quite young , and a ...
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... lights , and so thoroughly warmed that even the marble tables felt tepid to the touch . The waiter who brought me my cup of coffee bore , by comparison with my utter isolation , the dear aspect of an intimate friend . There , alone in a ...
... lights , and so thoroughly warmed that even the marble tables felt tepid to the touch . The waiter who brought me my cup of coffee bore , by comparison with my utter isolation , the dear aspect of an intimate friend . There , alone in a ...
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... light -- no grating , no lifebuoy , no piece of boat or branded oar - to give a hint of the place and date of her sudden end . The Shipping Gazette does not even call her " lost with all hands . " She remains simply " missing " ; she ...
... light -- no grating , no lifebuoy , no piece of boat or branded oar - to give a hint of the place and date of her sudden end . The Shipping Gazette does not even call her " lost with all hands . " She remains simply " missing " ; she ...
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Page 70 - And, besides, your modern ship which is a steamship makes her passages on other principles than yielding to the weather and humouring the sea. She receives smashing blows, but she advances; it is a slogging fight, and not a scientific campaign. The machinery, the steel, the fire, the steam have stepped in between the man and the sea.
Page 26 - But a ship is a creature which we have brought into the world, as it were on purpose to keep us up to the mark. In her handling a ship will not put up with a mere pretender, as, for instance, the public will do with Mr. X, the popular statesman, Mr. Y, the popular scientist, or Mr. Z, the popular — what shall we say? — anything from a teacher of high morality to a bagman — who have won their little race. But I would like (though not accustomed to betting) to wager a large sum that not one of...
Page 29 - Like all true art, the general conduct of a ship and her handling in particular cases had a technique which could be discussed with delight and pleasure by men who found in their work, not bread alone, but an outlet for the peculiarities of their temperament.
Page 11 - whether he takes charge of a ship or a fleet, almost invariably 'casts' his anchor. Now, an anchor is never cast, and to take a liberty with technical language is a crime against the clearness, precision, and beauty of perfected speech.
Page 135 - He cannot brook the slightest appearance of defiance, and has remained the irreconcilable enemy of ships and men ever since ships and men had the unheard-of audacity to go afloat together in the face of his frown. From that day he has gone on swallowing up fleets and men without his resentment being glutted by the number of victims — by so many wrecked ships and wrecked lives. To-day, as ever, he is ready to beguile and betray, to smash and to drown the incorrigible optimism of men who, backed...
Page 22 - Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread. But there is something beyond — a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art — which is art.
Page 28 - ... inheritance. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Page 145 - There was nothing wanting in its orderly arrangement—neither piety nor faith, nor the tribute of praise due to the worthy dead, with the edifying recital of their achievement. She had lived, he had loved her; she had suffered, and he was glad she was at rest. It was an excellent discourse. And it was orthodox, too, in its fidelity to the cardinal article of a seaman's faith, of which it was a single-minded confession. "Ships are all right.
Page 19 - He is the man who watches the growth of the cable a sailor's phrase which has all the force, precision, and imagery of technical language that, created by simple men with keen eyes for the real aspect of things they see in their trade, achieves the just expression seizing upon the essential, which is the ambition of the artist in words.
Page 146 - Open to all and faithful to none, it exercises its fascination for the undoing of the best. To love it is not well. It knows no bond of plighted troth, no fidelity to misfortune, to long companionship, to long devotion.