The Pilgrimage of Henry JamesDutton, 1925 - 170 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 40 - American life — especially in the American life of forty years ago, the effect of which, upon an English or a French imagination, would probably as a general thing be appalling. The natural remark, in the almost lurid light of such an indictment, would be that if these things are left out, everything is left out. The American knows that a good deal remains; what it is that remains — that is his secret, his joke, as one may say. It would be cruel, in this terrible denudation, to deny him the consolation...
الصفحة 89 - Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible round about. His scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.
الصفحة 94 - IT is remarkable, that our people have their intellectual culture from one country, and their duties from another.
الصفحة 39 - It takes so many things, as Hawthorne must have felt later in life, when he made the acquaintance of the denser, richer, warmer European spectacle — it takes such an accumulation of history and custom, such a complexity of manners and types, to form a fund of suggestion for a novelist.
الصفحة 103 - The great question as to a poet or a novelist is, How does he feel about life? what, in the last analysis, is his philosophy? When vigorous writers have reached maturity we are at liberty to look in their works for some expression of a total view of the world they have been so actively observing. This is the most interesting thing their works offer us.
الصفحة 89 - Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
الصفحة 27 - I mayn't have missed. It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere within me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and that I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him for once and for ever.
الصفحة 40 - ... no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools - no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class - no Epsom nor Ascot!
الصفحة 39 - ... the items of high civilisation, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. No State, in the European sense of the word, and indeed barely a specific national name. No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy...
الصفحة 66 - But it's an odd thing that such tricks should grow at a time when my last layers of resistance to a longencroaching weariness and satiety with the French mind and its utterance has fallen from me like a garment. I have done with 'em, forever and am turning English all over. I desire only to feed on English life and the contact of English minds — I wish greatly 1 knew some.