... by her imaginative estimate of its power she endowed that lump of metal with a justificative conception, as though it were not a mere fact, but something far-reaching and impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard - Page 92by Joseph Conrad - 1904 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Conrad - English fiction - 1921 - 594 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1923 - 596 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1925 - 594 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile... | |
| Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...with Charles: "she endowed that lump of metal"—the first silver ingot produced by the mine—"with a justificative conception, as though it were not...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle" (I, 8). But Emilia becomes at last an ineffectual and lonely spectator, dismayed... | |
| Ian Watt, Ian P. Watt - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 124 pages
...once thrilled her because she endowed them with a 'justificative conception' which saw them not as 'a mere fact, but something far-reaching and impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle' (N, 107). That she no longer feels this nicely illustrates Conrad's inconspicuous... | |
| Deirdre David - Colonies in literature - 1995 - 256 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had lain her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...of its power she endowed that lump of metal with a justicative conception, as though it were not a mere fact, but something far-reaching and impalpable,... | |
| Geoffrey Galt Harpham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 232 pages
...can then be "endowed" by readers with a "justificative conception," as the silver is by Mrs. Gould, "as though it were not a mere fact, but something...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle" (N98). The literal activity of plunderers turns out to be a remarkably apt... | |
| Daniel R. Schwarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 212 pages
...laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon the first [spongy lump] turned out still warm from the mould; and by her imaginative...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle" (107). Mrs. Gould is midwife to silver rather than mother to children. Just... | |
| Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2005 - 512 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 414 pages
...to the hazards of the world by the dark depths of the Gould Concession; she had laid her unmercenary hands, with an eagerness that made them tremble, upon...impalpable, like the true expression of an emotion or the emergence of a principle. Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile... | |
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