 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...  The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad - Page 137by Joseph Conrad - 1921Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 944 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...he is always stealthily ready for a drowning. The only amazing wonder of the deep is its unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1912 - 296 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...he is always stealthily ready for a drowning. The only amazing wonder of the deep is its unfathomable crueltv. I felt its dread for the first time in... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Seafaring life - 1916 - 344 pages
...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...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in midAtlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homewardbound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 216 pages
...it were too great, too mighty for common virtues, the ocean has no compassion, no faith, no law, nt> memory. Its fickleness is to be held true to men's...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 218 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Novelists, English - 1923 - 232 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 378 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1923 - 218 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 380 pages
...no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness...unfathomable cruelty. I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound... | |
 | Geoffrey Galt Harpham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 232 pages
...thoughts: "The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation. ... If not always in the hot mood to smash, he is always...amazing wonder of the deep is its unfathomable cruelty" (MS 137). Unfathomable? The sea's cruelty would, perhaps, have been unfathomable if it did not so closely... | |
| |
