 ... an enormous riding light burning above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Below its steady glow, the coast, stretching away straight and black, resembled the high side of an indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea....  The Quarterly Review - Page 156edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 794 pages
...monsters, distrustful of the open waters. At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into an unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...trawling fleet a great lighthouse shone steadily, like an enormous riding light burning above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Beneath its steady glow... | |
 | 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
...up-Channel before a hard sou'wester : 'At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into cue unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with... | |
 | Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) - 1912 - 28 pages
...passage I wish to quote : "At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into one unbroken linfe of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled with the...indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with... | |
 | 1913 - 874 pages
...a hard sou'wester: "At night the hendlnnds retreated, tlie l>ny« advanced into one unbroken llr>e of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled with the...Indestructible craft riding motionless upon the Immortal and unresting sea. The dark land lay alone in the midst of the waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1916 - 240 pages
...monsters, distrustful of the restless waves. ^ At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into one unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...indestructible 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... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 246 pages
...monsters, distrustful of the restless waves. At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into one unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...indestructible 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... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1927 - 202 pages
...monsters, distrustful of the restless waves. At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into one unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...trawling fleet a great lighthouse shone steadily, like an enormous riding light burning above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Below its steady glow,... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - 1924 - 578 pages
...patient for reasons that had no direct relation to the state of his health." CONRAD AND ENGLAND. — The lights of the earth mingled with the lights of...great lighthouse shone steadily, such as an enormous riding-light burning above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Below its steady glow, the coast, stretching... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 200 pages
...lanterns of a trawling fleet a great lighthouse shone steadily, like an enormous riding light burn- ; ing above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Below its steady...indestructible craft riding motionless upon the immortal and unresting sea. fThe dark land lay alone in the midst of waters, like a mighty ship bestarred with vigilant... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 198 pages
...monsters, distrustful of the restless waves. At night the headlands retreated, the bays advanced into one unbroken line of gloom. The lights of the earth mingled...trawling fleet a great lighthouse shone steadily, like an enormous riding light burning above a vessel of fabulous dimensions. Below its steady glow,... | |
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