I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on the strength of a single glance, and gone to sleep with both eyes — and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths of horror in that thought.... The Quarterly Review - Pagina 165geredigeerd door - 1912Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 422 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's ! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...there was some Infernal alloy in his metal. How much 7 The least thing — the least drop of something rare and accursed ; the least drop ! — but he made... | |
| 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 pagina’s
...nobody could tell, till he died, whether he was malingering or not. The Youth — it is that same Marlow who narrates most of 'Lord Jim' — had his youth's...and gone to sleep with both eyes — and, by Jove 1 it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths of horror in that thought. He looked as genuine as a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1920 - 446 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...new sovereign, but there was some infernal alloy in frig pifta.L How much? The least thing — the least drop of something rare and accursed; the least... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1900 - 440 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...deck to that youngster on the strength of a single glance^~and gone to steep with both eyes — and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. There are depths... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 444 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...infernal alloy in his metal. How much? The least thing — th< is s\ y\ *l least drop of something rare and accursed; the least drop! — but he made you... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1920 - 440 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...and gone to sleep with both eyes — and, by Jove! i't_wf>ii1Hn't, have been safe. There are depths of horror in that, thought. He looked as genuine as... | |
| Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 pagina’s
...port, walking along the quay toward the harbor office, Marlow is struck by Jim's looks: "I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...safe. There are depths of horror in that thought" (28). Jim's appearance immediately places him in "the forefront of his kind" (57) as regards a capacity... | |
| Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 pagina’s
...stable opposition. Jim is the locus of that anxiety, for though he appears to be an exemplary sailor ("I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on the strength of a single glance"), his jump from the Patna betrays that image. In a classic crisis of radical skepticism, "depths of horror"... | |
| Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pagina’s
...quality - rather than using him "to make [us] see." The most damning consideration Marlow makes is: "I would have trusted the deck to that youngster on...safe. There are depths of horror in that thought" (45). Thus, Marlow's first encounter with Jim brings his own projections to the surface. The crime... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1993 - 308 pagina’s
...lonely in the world by virtue of that hearty thump. Don't I remember the little So-and-so's! I tell you I ought to know the right kind of looks. I would have...strength of a single glance, and gone to sleep with bodi eyes - and, by Jove! it wouldn't have been safe. He looked as genuine as a new sovereign, but... | |
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