 The wilderness had patted him on the head, and, behold, it was like a ball an ivory ball; it had caressed him, and - lo! - he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Página 132por Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1899 - 1284 páginas
...; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | James Moffatt - 1906 - 160 páginas
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own, by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory ? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. You should have heard him say, "My... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 páginas
...; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory ? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 páginas
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. [Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | 1900 - 874 páginas
...withered; It had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got Into his veins, consumed his flesh and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...country. 'Mostly fossil,' the manager had remarked. It was no more fossil than I am; but they call It fossil when it is dug up. It appears these niggers... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 205 páginas
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 páginas
...Kurtz had "set up and [bowed] down before" a benevolent idea, but when the wilderness had "sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation," Kurtz's idea became its own solipsistic parody: "My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my —... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 páginas
...the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it....either above or below the ground in the whole country. "Mosdy fossil," the manager had remarked disparagingly. It was no more fossil than I am; but they call... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 páginas
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 páginas
...withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of...devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favourite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it. The old mud shanty was bursting with... | |
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