 | Scotland - 1900 - 1174 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht war ? . . . No ! I tell you ! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me — how to be ? ' "His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though away there... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 422 pages
...endeavour to do. he drowns — nicht war? . . . No! I tell you ! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you upT\So if you ask . // •me — how to be?' " His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 1905 - 408 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht war? . . . No! I tell you ! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me — how to be ? ' " His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though away there... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 540 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht war ? . . . No ! I tell you ! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So you ask me — how to be ? ' " His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though away there... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Atonement - 1924 - 440 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht wahr? . . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me — how to be?' "His voice leaped up extraordinarily strong, as though away there... | |
 | Winifred Bryan Horner - Education - 1983 - 190 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns—nicht wahrl. . . No. I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up." 23 The authors of these handbooks, along with most teachers of composition, would no doubt say, truthfully... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...endeavor to do, he drowns—nicht war? . . . No, I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. Man, as Stein has remarked, comes "where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him"; the sea... | |
 | Alexander Nehamas - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 294 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns— nicht wahr? . . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim In order to convince the citizens of his model state to love their land, sacrifice... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Fiction - 1987 - 324 pages
...whiteness. . . ,"13 Again, Twain argues with Conrad's Stein that " 'the way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...keep you up. ... In the destructive element immerse. . . .' "u In "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," Twain's divergent moral and ethical ideas merge in... | |
 | Winifred Bryan Horner - Education - 1983 - 190 pages
...endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht wahrl . . . No. I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands...feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up."21 The authors of these handbooks, along with most teachers of composition, would no doubt say,... | |
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns — nicht wahr? 
