 | Scotland - 1899 - 1284 pages
...indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pages
...indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 644 pages
...ambition, and his driving will-power. But he, too, says Marlow, who tells the story, comes under the spell, 'the heavy mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.' His soul itself, and only his soul, goes mad. ' Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 634 pages
...and his driving will-power. But he, too, says Marlow, who tells the story, comes under the spell, ' the heavy mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.' His soul itself, and only his soul, goes mad. ' Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1912 - 652 pages
...Marlow, who tells the story, comes under the spell, ‘the heavy mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.' His soul itself, and only his soul, goes mad. ‘Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...and his driving will-power. But he, too, says -Marlow, who tells the story, comes under the spell, "the heavy mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions." His soul itself, and only his soul, goes mad. "Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked "within... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal V instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literature, Modern - 1923 - 376 pages
...of the monstrous Kurtz who has been bewitched by the "heavy mute spell of the wilderness that seems to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions ; and this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspiration." And it... | |
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I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. 
