The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant lights — a ship carrying the burden of millions of lives — a ship freighted with dross and with jewels, with gold and with steel. The Quarterly Review - Page 157edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
| 1897 - 794 pages
...a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant lights—a ship carrying the burden of millions of lives—a ship freighted with dross and with jewels, with gold...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For ages had the ocean battered... | |
| Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) - 1912 - 28 pages
...resembled the high side of an indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters,...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For ages had the ocean battered... | |
| 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 - 1912 - 634 pages
...resembled the high side of an indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters,...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great shipl For ages had the ocean battered... | |
| 1913 - 874 pages
...resembled the high side of an Indestructible craft riding motionless upon the Immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters,...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship! For ases had the ocean battered... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 250 pages
...craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For ages had the ocean battered... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 246 pages
...craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...and untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories x^r 204 THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendio transgressions.... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 254 pages
...craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...traditions and untold suffering, sheltering glorious memorie* and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For ages... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1927 - 202 pages
...craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. VA great ship! For ages had the ocean battered... | |
| John Middleton Murry - 1924 - 578 pages
...indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For a?es had the ocean battered... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 492 pages
...craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant...untold suffering, sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship! For ages had the ocean battered... | |
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