 he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the  Romance: A Novel - Page 115by Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1903 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 556 pages
...pose, the sorrow of his round, wrinkled face, was so great that it seemed were he to cease smoking, he would die of grief. The general effect of the place...beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the sombre green of the hills, had the motionlessness of things petrified, the vividness of things painted,... | |
 | Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - Colonies in literature - 2003 - 364 pages
...indeed functions less as a thriving alternative to the dilapidation of Europe than as a hardened fossil: “The general effect of the place was of vitality...beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the sombre green of the hills, had the motionlessness of things petrified, the vividness of things painted,... | |
 | Sarah Cole - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...indeed functions less as a thriving alternative to the dilapidation of Europe than as a hardened fossil: ‘The general effect of the place was of vitality...beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the sombre green of the hills, had the motionlessness of things petrified, the vividness of things painted,... | |
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