 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. She towered up immense and strong,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 161edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | 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
...glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great shipl For ages had the ocean battered in vain her enduring...country for its own imperfect and homely and glorious self — a love existing deep down in numberless hearts, yet never spoken better than in that passage... | |
 | Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) - Peace - 1912 - 28 pages
...virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For ages had the ocean battered in vain her 265270 enduring sides ; she was there when the world was...stronger than the storms, and anchored in the open sea." I hope you will agree that these eloquent words describe a love of country, a form of patriotism, of... | |
 | Literature - 1913 - 874 pages
...memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship! For ases had the ocean battered In vain her enduring sides;...country for Its own imperfect and homely and glorious self — a love existing deep down In numberless hearts, yet never spoken better than In that passage... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Black people - 1916 - 240 pages
...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...stronger than the storms ! and anchored in the open sea. ( The " Narcissus," heeling over to off-shore gusts, rounded the South Foreland, passed through the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1919 - 254 pages
...immense and strong, guarding priceless traditions and untold suffering, sheltering glorious memorie* and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid...stronger than the storms ! and anchored in the open sea. The " Narcissus," heeling over to ofF-shore gusts, rounded the South Foreland, passed through the Downs,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - African Americans - 1919 - 246 pages
...glorious memories x^r 204 THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendio transgressions. A great ship ! For ages had the ocean...stronger than the storms ! and anchored in the open sea. The " Narcissus," heeling over to off-shore gusts, rounded the South Foreland, passed through the Downs,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1927 - 202 pages
...sheltering glorious memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. VA great ship! For ages had the ocean battered in vain...stronger than the storms ! and anchored in the open sea. The Narcissus, heeling over to oflf-shore gusts, rounded the South Foreland, passed through the Downs,... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - English prose literature - 1924 - 578 pages
...memories and base forgetfulness, ignoble virtues and splendid transgressions. A great ship ! For a?es had the ocean battered in vain her enduring sides...stronger than the storms ! And anchored in the open sea. — Joseph Conrad. AMERICAN-CUT TROUSERS By Sarah Gertrude Millin (i) LENA is Alita's sister, but the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 198 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...stronger than the storms! and anchored in the open sea. The Narcissus, heeling over to off-shore gusts, rounded the South Foreland, passed through the Downs,... | |
 | Alan Mulgan - England - 1927 - 248 pages
...world was vaster and darker, when the sea was great and mysterious, and ready to surrender the price of fame to audacious men. A ship, mother of fleets...great flagship of the race ; stronger than the storms I and anchored in the open sea. In periods of all emotion, a pause must come. Sleep called us ; we... | |
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