 | Henry James - Authors, American - 1920 - 548 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...while moving to this as its grand Niagara— yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that was ours, in the most... | |
 | Henry James - Literary Collections - 1920 - 580 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...was then all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara—yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that... | |
 | Henry James - Authors, American - 1920 - 538 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...that bore us along was then all the while moving to tUs as its grand Niagara— yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything,... | |
 | Evelyn A. Hovanec - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 174 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...was then all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara——yet what a blessing we didn't know it.” 7 In a later letter to Hugh Walpole, James,... | |
 | Dietmar Schloss - Civilization in literature - 1992 - 158 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...while moving to this as its grand Niagara - yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that was ours, in the most... | |
 | John W. Aldridge - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 266 pages
...gathers, and I'm sick beyond cure to have lived to see it. You and I ... should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...civilization grow and the worst become impossible. ... It seems to me to undo everything, everything that was ours, in the most horrible retroactive way."... | |
 | Daniel Pick - Technology & Engineering - 1996 - 308 pages
...shaping, but repressed from, the consciousness of pre-war culture: The tide that bore us along was all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara — yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that was ours, in the most... | |
 | Beverly Haviland - History - 1997 - 312 pages
...our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we have seen civilization grow and the worst become impossible....while moving to this as its grand Niagara - yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that was ours, in the most... | |
 | Henry James - Literary Collections - 1999 - 282 pages
...to have lived on to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...was then all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara—yet what a blessing we didn't know it. It seems to me to undo everything, everything that... | |
 | Eliot Weinberger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 212 pages
...cure to have lived to see it. You and I, the ornaments of our generation, should have been spared this wreck of our belief that through the long years we...while moving to this as its grand Niagara yet what a blessing we didn't know it." —Henry James, letter to Rhoda Broughton, 1. August 1914 In the second... | |
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the wreck of our belief that through the long years we had seen civilization grow and the worst become impossible. The tide that bore us along was then all the while moving to this as its grand Niagara. 
