 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - Caribbean Area - 1903 - 474 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end—suffering,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 652 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 562 pages
...souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. 'fhe whole world, the whole of life, with her return, had...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - English fiction - 1924 - 138 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end—... | |
 | Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 298 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 556 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 562 pages
...heart has come back from the dead. For years afterwards I could not bear to have her out of my sight. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 556 pages
...overtried souls before the greatness of a change from the verge of despair to the opening of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end—... | |
 | Sarah Cole - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...dramatize both Kemp's unacknowledged regret for lost homoeroticism and his complete inter nalization of the lessons taught by the court. Seraphina herself...of rest that was like the fall of a beneficent and weleome death. (R, 541) Heterosexual life embraces Kemp into death; its processes are silent and soporific,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1949 - 550 pages
...souls before the greatness of a change from the vergt. of despair to the opening of a supreme joy, The whole world, the whole of life, with her return,...was like the fall of a beneficent and welcome death. For suffering is the lot of man, but not inevitable failure or worthless despair which is without end... | |
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... of a supreme joy. The whole world, the whole of life, with her return, had changed all around me; it enveloped me, it enfolded me so lightly as not to be felt, so suddenly as not to be believed in, so completely that that whole meeting was an embrace,... 