 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pagine
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. " It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pagine
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered ft for the illustration of life, that might stand for...yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 pagine
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. "It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
 | Mary Burchard Orvis - 1928 - 314 pagine
...strengthening a story. Conrad used it in "Youth" : "You fellows know those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." Thornton Wilder used it in his beautiful and outstanding novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A priest... | |
 | Robert Charles Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1958 - 342 pagine
...Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts."... | |
 | Robert C. Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1967 - 340 pagine
...kernel—Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me—and into my thoughts."... | |
 | Carlos Baker - 1972 - 464 pagine
...know," says Marlow, beginning his account of the Judea, "there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...something — and you can't. Not from any fault of yours." If it is so with the Judea, bound for Bangkok, do or die, it is so with Santiago of Havana, bound for... | |
 | David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - 1991 - 368 pagine
...shared values concerning adventures at sea: You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...trying to accomplish something — and you can't. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world. (3-4) Marlow affirms... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 pagine
...He wishes to believe that his first journey to the East was one of "those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." As Marlow recalls his great adventure, he discovers that, in spite of the voyage's failure, it not... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 pagine
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...world - not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. 'It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my... | |
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You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't.... 
