The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, Volume 4Doubleday, Page, 1921 |
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... Stand clear of the cable ! " he waits attentive , in a silent ship that forges slowly ahead towards her picked - out berth , for the sharp shout from aft , " Let go ! " Instantly bending over , he sees the trusty iron fall with a heavy ...
... Stand clear of the cable ! " he waits attentive , in a silent ship that forges slowly ahead towards her picked - out berth , for the sharp shout from aft , " Let go ! " Instantly bending over , he sees the trusty iron fall with a heavy ...
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... standing still upon her decks , the master gazing intently for- ward from the break of the poop . Gradually she loses her way , hardly moving , with the three figures on her forecastle waiting attentively about the cat - head for the ...
... standing still upon her decks , the master gazing intently for- ward from the break of the poop . Gradually she loses her way , hardly moving , with the three figures on her forecastle waiting attentively about the cat - head for the ...
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... stand a chance of profiting by his artifices . Men , professors or coal - heavers , are easily deceived ; they even have an extraordinary knack of lending themselves to deception , a sort of curious and inexplicable propensity to allow ...
... stand a chance of profiting by his artifices . Men , professors or coal - heavers , are easily deceived ; they even have an extraordinary knack of lending themselves to deception , a sort of curious and inexplicable propensity to allow ...
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... white . But it is a wonder that we did not carry away the cables of both our anchors , for , as may be imagined , I did not stand upon the order to “ Let go ! " that came to me in a quavering 34 THE MIRROR OF THE SEA.
... white . But it is a wonder that we did not carry away the cables of both our anchors , for , as may be imagined , I did not stand upon the order to “ Let go ! " that came to me in a quavering 34 THE MIRROR OF THE SEA.
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... a perfectly new , extra - stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter than gossamer . Then was the time for the tall spars to stand fast in the great uproar . The machinery must do its work even COBWEBS AND GOSSAMER 37.
... a perfectly new , extra - stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter than gossamer . Then was the time for the tall spars to stand fast in the great uproar . The machinery must do its work even COBWEBS AND GOSSAMER 37.
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Popular passages
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.