 ... own. The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by...  The Living Age - Pagina 2751912Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1904 - 884 pagina’s
...reds, was a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a Joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly In words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this" (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr. James has shared In the special impulse... | |
 | Henry James - 1902 - 348 pagina’s
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. " Than she? You'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well... | |
 | Henry James - 1902 - 346 pagina’s
...very great personage —only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be I better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. " Than she ? You'd scarce need to be better,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 698 pagina’s
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this " ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 700 pagina’s
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this" ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 688 pagina’s
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this " ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1907 - 388 pagina’s
...reds, was a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly in words that had nothing to...do with her. ' I shall never be better than this.' This is only one of many passages that show how Mr. James has shared in the special impulse towards... | |
 | Henry James - 1909 - 348 pagina’s
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. "Than she? You'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well... | |
 | Henry James - 1909 - 342 pagina’s
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. "Than she? You 'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 pagina’s
...reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly in words that had nothing to...do with her. "I shall never be better than this." With the habit of occasional obscurity came the power to write prose like this. Even in the most confusing... | |
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