 Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty : " I engage myself to you for ever." The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing — couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light....  The Quarterly Review - Page 364edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | 1904 - 884 pages
...the stage on which many of his romances are unfolded. Lovers of the poetry of London and of the heavy London spring, with the fumes that rise from the earth...separated nothing— couldn't have thought of her face us distinct from the whole Joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge you — I call God to witness!... | |
 | Henry James - American fiction - 1902 - 348 pages
...warm, transparent irony, into which their livelier intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimmer. Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty...light. " And I pledge you — I call God to witness! — every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but it... | |
 | Henry James - Americans - 1902 - 346 pages
...warm, transparent irony, into which their livelier intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimmer. Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty:...beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1903 - 700 pages
...and for that very reason possible nowhere but in the heart of the place where all things happen ; 1 Chronicle at once And burial-place of passions, and...light. " And I pledge you — I call God to witness ! — every spark of my faith ; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1903 - 698 pages
...and their home Imperial, their chief living residence.' The natural heart of London is the paries, with their 'smutted sheep' and grassy distances; and...light. "And I pledge you — I call God to witness! — every spark of my faith ; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but... | |
 | Literature - 1904 - 868 pages
...of softening mist, with the sense of infinite life —thrown back, though, and not intruding—just serve to relieve and enhance these peculiar dramas,...light. "And I pledge you— I call God to witness!— every epark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but it was... | |
 | Henry James - Manners and customs - 1909 - 348 pages
...warm transparent irony, into which their livelier intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimmer. Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty...in everything, and he could have separated nothing — could n't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light.... | |
 | Henry James - 1909 - 342 pages
...warm transparent irony, into which their livelier intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimmer. Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty...in everything, and he could have separated nothing — could n't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light.... | |
 | Henry James - Americans - 1909 - 340 pages
...livelier intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimSuddenly she said to him with extraordinary mer. beauty : " I engage myself to you for ever." The beauty...in everything, and he could have separated nothing — could n't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light.... | |
 | Henry James - 1902 - 342 pages
...intimacy kept plunging like a confident swimmer. Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: 7 1 engage myself to you for ever." The beauty was in...light. " And I pledge you — I call God to witness! — every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but it... | |
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