 I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 173geredigeerd door - 1912Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1899 - 1284 pagina’s
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pagina’s
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pagina’s
...any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pagina’s
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal V instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pagina’s
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1923 - 376 pagina’s
...of the monstrous Kurtz who has been bewitched by the "heavy mute spell of the wilderness that seems to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions ; and this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspiration." And it... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pagina’s
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 pagina’s
...little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the [429] wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | 1915 - 400 pagina’s
...of the monstrous Kurtz who has been bewitched by the " heavy mute spell of the wilderness that seems to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions; and this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspiration." And it all... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pagina’s
...any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell— the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, toward the... | |
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