 I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.  The Quarterly Review - Page 173edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1899 - 1284 pages
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 404 pages
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 pages
...any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 364 pages
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal V instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pages
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literature, Modern - 1923 - 376 pages
...of the monstrous Kurtz who has been bewitched by the "heavy mute spell of the wilderness that seems to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions ; and this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspiration." And it... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 pages
...understand — and indeed it would have been very little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - Short story - 1928 - 524 pages
...little use for any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the [429] wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the... | |
 | 1915 - 400 pages
...of the monstrous Kurtz who has been bewitched by the " heavy mute spell of the wilderness that seems to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions; and this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspiration." And it all... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pages
...any practical purpose. I tried to break the spell— the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening...by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, toward the... | |
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