 Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous...  The Quarterly Review - Page 175edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1899 - 1120 pages
...the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction. CHAPTER III. A marvellous stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1900 - 406 pages
...the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction. CHAPTER III A MARVELLOUS stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1905 - 408 pages
...the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction. CHAPTER III A MARVELLOUS stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity of... | |
 | 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
...the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame nicked at her from a heaven without pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction.' ' Considered... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...in the wake of the ship; and the ship, lonely under n wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast wny blnck and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched...action, plot, suspense, excitement, they have numerous longueurs, and their appeal lies rather in the strangeness of their scenes and subjects. On the other... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 540 pages
...the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship ; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction. CHAPTER THREE A MARVELLOUS stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1924 - 440 pages
...into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadfast way black...pity. The nights descended on her like a benediction. CHAPTER THREE A MARVELLOUS stillness pervaded the world, and the stars, together with the serenity... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...the identical hot days "falling into an abyss forever open in the wake of the ship." The ship holds on "her steadfast way black and smouldering in a luminous...flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity." But in the calm amidships, where the five white officers live, there is only the "assurance of everlasting... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 288 pages
...flourishes of the anonymous narrator are suffused with a sense of divine malice, as when the Patna smolders in "a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity" (LJ 16).21 This pattern suggests a desire to evade moral responsibility by displacing intentionality... | |
 | Adam Zachary Newton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 366 pages
...fallacy. He describes the sunshine as having "killed all thought, oppressed the heart," and the ship "as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity" (1:19). The last sentence of the chapter — "The nights descended on her like a benediction" — commences... | |
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