Bends. Then on the waters of the forlorn stream drifts a ship— a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-bye,... The Quarterly Review - Page 161edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
| 1897 - 794 pages
...good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; and tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. THE END. JOSEPH CONRAD. [AUTHOR'S NOTE.—Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of... | |
| 1898 - 604 pages
...sign in a shadowy hail. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from onr sinful lives ? Goodbye, brothers! You were a good...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale." Though the Tales of Unrest vibrate with that note of sadness sounded in the title, they do not therefore... | |
| 1911 - 882 pages
...Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives? Good-by, brothers ! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. An entirely different setting is given in Almayer's Folly. Here we are led to the Malay Archipelago,... | |
| 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
...some, the steamers took others, the graveyards of the earth will account for the rest. ... So be it 1 Let the earth and the sea each have its own. A gone...spectator. He has been, so to speak, of them. Hence he is able to say, 'You were a good crowd,' where, from a spectatorial point of view, they would have been... | |
| 1913 - 874 pages
...ship-— ¡i shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hall. Haven't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung...brothers!" There, or very near it, lies the secret. i The writer's relation to them, his understanding of them, his sympathy for them, his tenderness,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 198 pages
...and the sea each have its own. A gone shipmate, like any other man, is gone for ever: and I never met one of them again. But at times the springflood of...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. 290 2625 G de, a bine i rth,c ess; it of (It >ytif the d Me is '7The borrower must return this item... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1916 - 240 pages
...a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. \Have n't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. THE COUNTRY LIFE PEESS GARDEN CITY. NY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DATE DUE k DO NOT REMOVE ... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 246 pages
...— a shadowy ship manned by a crew of Shades. They pass and make a sign, in a shadowy hail. Have n't we, together and upon the immortal sea, wrung out...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. ^ FEB 1 2 1P20 THE COUNTKY LIFE FKES8 CAKDEN CITY, HT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 3 9015 J03238 3039 THE... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 558 pages
...sea, wrung out a meaning from our sinful lives ? Good-bye, brothers ! You were a good crowd. As good^a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale. THE END AND OTHER STORIES THE WORKS OF JOSEPH CONRAD TYPHOON AND OTHER STORIES Far as the mariner on... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 364 pages
...tenderness. London could never close a novel or a short story with a passage like this : "Good by, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as...night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale." The reason, perhaps, lies in Conrad's own dictum : "Failing the resolution to hold our peace, we can... | |
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