 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pages
...stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not...navigators, so old, so mysterious, resplendent and somber, living and unchanged, full of danger and promise. And these were the men. I sat up suddenly.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not...big leaves that hung shining and still like leaves v forged of heavy metal. This was the East of the ancient navigators, so old, so mysterious, resplendent... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1904 - 878 pages
...them, brown roofs of hidden houses peeped ' through the big leaves that hung shining and still.' And ' this was the East of the ancient navigators, so old, so mysterious.' His ship is gone, and his plight is desperate ; but he has attained the desire of his youth. When the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1904 - 870 pages
...them, brown roofs of hidden houses peeped ' through the big leaves that hung shining and still.' And ' this was the East of the ancient navigators, so old, so mysterious.' His ship is gone, and his plight is desperate ; but he has attained the desire of his youth. When the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Africa - 1924 - 366 pages
...the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of pa 1 in- stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred...living and unchanged, full of danger and promise. And these were the men. I sat up suddenly. A wave of movement passed through the crowd from end to... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - English poetry - 1919 - 368 pages
...all these beings stared without a murmur, without a sigh, without a movement. . . . Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not...living and unchanged, full of danger and promise." And that is the East which has exercised its spell upon Occidental poetry for centuries — on Goethe,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of ,x palms stood still against the sky. Not a branch stirred...living and unchanged, full of danger and promise. And these were the men. I sat up suddenly. A wave of movement passed through the crowd from end to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not...metal. This was the East of the ancient navigators, so pld, so mysterious, resplendent and sombre, living and unchanged, full of danger and promise. And these... | |
 | John Albert Macy - Literature - 1922 - 348 pages
...stared down at the boats, at the sleeping men who at night had come to them from the sea. Nothing moved. The fronds of palms stood still against the sky. Not...leaves forged of heavy metal. This was the East of the navigators, so old, so mysterious, resplendent 119 and somber, living and unchanged, full of danger... | |
 | Schelling anniversary papers - Literature - 1923 - 362 pages
.... . The mysterious East, . . . perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave. . . . The East of the ancient navigators, so old, so mysterious,...living and unchanged, full of danger and promise." Folk (1903) has an Eastern setting, Bangkok aga1n, but the happenings that had made its dour Scandinavian... | |
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This was the East of the ancient navigators, so old, so mysterious, resplendent and sombre, living and unchanged, full of danger and promise. 
