 | Harry Torsey Baker - Authorship - 1916 - 292 pages
...The impression which the chief mate leaves upon him is powerfully indicated in the following passage: Suddenly I perceived that there was another man In...one side and looking intently at me. The chief mate. - I was vexed and disconcerted. His long red mustache determined the character of his physiognomy,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1917 - 214 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work...pugnacious in (strange to say) a ghastly sort of way. How long had he been there looking at me, appraising me in my unguarded day-dreaming state? I would... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Axel Heiberg Island (Nunavut) - 1917 - 214 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work...him. Suddenly I perceived that there was another man hi the saloon, standing a little on one side and look- * ing intently at me. The chief mate. His long,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1924 - 152 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work...pugnacious in (strange to say) a ghastly sort of way. How long had he been there looking at me, appraising . ' me in my unguarded day-dreaming state? I would... | |
 | Norman Sherry - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 376 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard ; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him (pp. 65-6). The narrator is almost immediately brought into abrupt contact with that 'line of men whom... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...red moustache [which] determined the character of his physiognomy'. This physiognomy, he tells us, 'struck me as pugnacious in (strange to say) a ghastly sort of way' (p. 77). The qualifying parenthesis is an important clue to what Conrad intended us to feel about the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1998 - 308 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work...another man in the saloon, standing a little on one side ami looking intently at me. The chief mate. His long, red moustache determined the character of his... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 230 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him'. One of FR Leavis's main aims in the essay is to emphasize that Conrad does not merely wish to preach... | |
 | Fred Inglis - Business & Economics - 2000 - 234 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him.-5 To disregard the tradition is to put others' lives at risk. The years of a sailor's life and... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2003 - 200 pages
...men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him' (p. 44). Against his isolation, in other words, he is able to set the community provided by a specific... | |
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It struck me that this quietly staring man whom I was watching, both as if he were myself and somebody else, was not exactly a lonely figure. He had his place in a line of men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by... 