...the very moment the pilot with his pockets full of letters had got over the side, was like a race, a race against time, against an ideal standard of achievement...a ship and her handling in particular cases had a technic which could be discussed with delight and pleasure by men who found in their work not bread...

...very moment the pilot, with his pockets full of letters, had got over the side, was like a race — a race against time, against an ideal standard of achievement...peculiarities of their temperament. To get the best and truest eifect from the infinitely varying moods of sky and sea, not pictorially, but in the spirit of their...

...constantly reflected in Conrad's writing: "Every passage of a ship of yesterday . . . was like a race — a race against time, against an ideal standard of achievement outstripping the expectations of common men."140 As a dominating influence in the merchant captain's life, "hard driving" can be dated quite...

...art," Conrad writes in The Mirror of the Sea, "the general conduct of a ship and her handling . . . had a technique which could be discussed with delight...outlet for the peculiarities of their temperament" (31). 38. Conrad, Mirror of the Sea, 31, 136. 39. Ibid., 137. 40. Conrad, "Nigger of the Narcissus,"...

...real sailor or a mere lubber? As Joseph Conrad noted, the general conduct of ships and their handling could be discussed with delight and pleasure by men...alone, but an outlet for the peculiarities of their temperament."*8 John Froude's diary is, in this sense, a yarn, or a series of yarns. It is an oral...

...very moment the pilot, with his pockets full of letters, had got over the side, was like a race — a race against time, against an ideal standard of achievement...in their work, not bread alone, but an' outlet for thepeculiarities of their temperament. To get the best and truest effect from the infinitely varying...