 All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life that fall to the lot of the humblest on this earth, I had, like the prophet of old, "wrestled with the Lord...  The Atlantic Monthly - Seite 451928Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 232 Seiten
...opinion on this discrepancy. It's the sort of difference that can never be settled. All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the clouds in the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1912 - 242 Seiten
...opinion on this discrepancy. It's the sort of difference that can never be settled. All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the clouds in the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. These... | |
 | Frederic Taber Cooper - 1912 - 508 Seiten
...opinion on this discrepancy. It's the sort of difference that can never be settled. All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...creation, for the headlands of the coast, for the darkOCM of the Placid Golf, the light on the snows, the eloods OB the sky, and for the breath of life... | |
 | 1912 - 222 Seiten
...chapters of the novel "Nostromo," a tale of an imaginary (but true) seaboard, . . . . All I know is that for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the lot of the humblest on this earth, I had, like prophet of old, 'wrestled with the Lord' for my creation, for the headlands of the coast, for the darkness... | |
 | Alfred A. Knopf, James Huneker - 1914 - 36 Seiten
...difference that can never be settled. All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys qjf life that fall to the lot of the humblest on this earth, I had, like prophet of old, 'wrestled with the Lord' for my creation, for the headlands of the coast, for the darkness... | |
 | John Laird - 1920 - 256 Seiten
...the headlands 1 Biographia Literaria, chap. iv. 2 Op. cit. chap. xm. * A Personal Record, chap. v. of the coast, for the darkness of the Placid Gulf, the light on the snows, the clouds on the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin... | |
 | 1923 - 1048 Seiten
...I know is that for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life, ... I had, like the prophets of old, "wrestled with the Lord" for my creation,...the Placid Gulf, the light on the snows, the clouds on the sky &nd [this is the most telling clause of the deed] for the breath of life that had to be... | |
 | Doubleday, Page & Company - 1924 - 52 Seiten
...of this "Nostromo" grew. Of the writing of this book Conrad says in "A Personal Record" that ". . . for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the clouds in the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile. There... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 378 Seiten
...opinion on this discrepancy. It's the sort of difference that can never be settled. All I know, is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the Placid Gulf, the light on the snows, the clouds on the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1926 - 168 Seiten
...opinion on this discrepancy. It's the sort of difference that can never be settled. All I know, is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life...the Placid Gulf, the light on the snows, the clouds on the sky, and for the breath of life that had to be blown into the shapes of men and women, of Latin... | |
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