 For me that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma. The twilight was ebbing fast from the sky above his head, the strip of sand had sunk already under his feet, he himself...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3311900Full view - About this book
 | American fiction - 1918 - 550 pages
...frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the night." 'There is that last glimpse of Jim: "that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma. " .... "And that's the end. He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart." "Truth, illusive,... | |
 | American fiction - 1918 - 542 pages
...frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the night." There is that last glimpse of Jim: "that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma. " .... "And that's the end. He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart." "Truth, illusive,... | |
 | American fiction - 1918 - 568 pages
...frightful realities, a shadow, darker than the shadows of the night." There is that last glimpse of Jim: "that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma." .... "And that's the end. He passes away under a cloud, inscrutable at heart." "Truth, illusive, obscure,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Adventure stories - 1920 - 446 pages
...background long before I had lost sight of their protector. He was white from head to foot, and remained persistently visible with the stronghold of the night...say? Was it still veiled? I don't know. For me that whit^ figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma. The twilight... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Harrison, Richard Frederick Scholz, Harvey B. Densmore - American periodicals - 1920 - 648 pages
...afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience. . . . For me that white figure in the stillness of coast...sea seemed to stand at the heart of a vast enigma. And suddenly I lost him." Hyst, the important character in Victory, and the last of Conrad's studies... | |
 | Harry Hervey - East Asia - 1924 - 380 pages
...Beach-comber standing beneath the sign "Nederlandsche Stoomvart Maatschappij" and the roof of corrugated iron, "white from head to foot . . . persistently visible...stronghold of the night at his back, the sea at his feet . . ." 305 , EPISODE THE FOURTEENTH ADVENTURE: AN INTERLUDE BETWEEN SHIPS MORNING on the Straits. A... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1920 - 440 pages
...sight of their protector. He was white from head to foot, and remained persistentlyvisiBle witE~£Ee stronghold of the night at his back, the sea at his...say? Was it still veiled? I don't know. For me that J white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to » stand at the heart of a vast enigma.... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 400 pages
...and from its deck sees Jim alone standing on the beach. The ship gathers headway, and Marlow sees Jim with "the stronghold of the night at his back, the...feet, the opportunity by his side — still veiled." Marlow then asks his auditors, "What do you say? Was it still veiled?" As for himself, Marlow says,... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...shore till I had clambered on board the schooner. ... He was white from head to foot, and remained persistently visible with the stronghold of the night...feet, the opportunity by his side — still veiled? I don't know. For me that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 288 pages
...Chapter Thirty-Five, few readers would have expected more: He was white from head to foot, and remained persistently visible with the stronghold of the night...feet, the opportunity by his side — still veiled. . . . For me that white figure in the stillness of coast and sea seemed to stand at the heart of a... | |
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