 They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked restraint in the gratification of his various lusts, that .. there was something wanting in him — some small mat- j ter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence.  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 131di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 379 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1899 - 1284 pagine
...the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be...him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. It had tempted him with all the sinister suggestions of its loneliness. I think it had whispered to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pagine
...gratification of his various lusts, that there was sometiling wanting in him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be...to him at last — only at the very last. But the wilder- ; ness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 pagine
...various"'lusts-. that there was something wanting in him—some small matter~wliicll, when Lhe pTessing'need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence....I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last—only at the very last. (But the wilderness had found him out earlv, and had i utken on him ajterrible... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pagine
...the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting In him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be...him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic Invasion. It had tempted him with all the sinister suggestions of its loneliness. 1 think it had whispered to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 pagine
...the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be...under his magnificent eloquence. Whether he knew of his deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last — only at the very... | |
 | Douglas Tallack - 1987 - 236 pagine
...all his alienation, he feels he cannot share: 'there was something wanting in him - some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificant eloquence' (p. 97). While Kurtz's gestures are outward-looking- he is trader, journalist,... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 pagine
...way the wilderness has triumphed over the white man's conquest, singling out the apostle of light: "the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken...him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion" (131). The chilling glimpses of the appeal he thought he had heard during the voyage find confirmation... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 pagine
...the gratification of his various lusts . . . there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence." Earlier in his narration, Marlow seems to be preparing to excuse Kurtz; he asserts that the "idea"... | |
 | Michael Macovski - 1994 - 244 pagine
...eloquence" (75). Marlow goes on to insist that "there was something wanting in him— some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence" (58). In Heart of Darkness, then, narrative eloquence signifies not disclosure but duplicity: it conceals... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 pagine
...the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him — some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence' (HD 57). Lombroso often compared the criminal with the child, and found both to be, in effect, little... | |
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