 It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that a novelist lives — they are the very stuff his work is made of ; and in saying that in the absence of those " dreary and worn-out paraphernalia...  The Quarterly Review - Page 198edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Henry James - 1920 - 490 pages
...proposition that seems to me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that...paraphernalia " which I enumerate as being wanting in American society, " we have simply the whole of human life left," you beg (to my sense) the question.... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1923 - 408 pages
...proposition that seems to me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that...paraphernalia" which I enumerate as being wanting in American society, "we have simply the whole of human life left," you beg (to my sense) the question.... | |
 | Henry James - 1984 - 244 pages
...proposition that seems to me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established that...paraphernalia' which I enumerate as being wanting in American society, 'we have simply the whole of human life left', you beg (to my sense) the question.... | |
 | Henry James - 1986 - 524 pages
...proposition that strikes me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that...lives — they are the very stuff his work is made of. ..." (See Vol. 2 of the Letters for other correspondence on Hawthorne.) For reviews of Hawthorne by... | |
 | Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 pages
...a proposition that seems to me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that a novelist lives - they are the very stuffhis work is made of; and in saying that in the absence of those 'dreary and worn-out paraphernalia'... | |
 | Graham Clarke - 1991 - 452 pages
...subject, as containing "the whole of human life." It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that...the very stuff his work is made of; and in saying thai in the absence of those "dreary" and worn-out paraphernalia" which 1 enumerate as being wanting... | |
 | Susan Goodman - 2003 - 234 pages
...complexities, and above all its colorations. Excursives It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that...lives, they are the very stuff his work is made of. LETTEROFHENRYJAMESTOW.D.HOWELLS I feel that to your generation, which has taken such a flying leap... | |
 | Rob Davidson - 2005 - 312 pages
...equally telling: It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured & established, that a novelist lives — they are the very stuff his work is made of; & in saying that in the absence of those "dreary & worn-out paraphernalia" which I enumerate as being... | |
 | David Garrett Izzo, Daniel T. O’Hara - 2014 - 256 pages
...would write to William Dean Howells in 1880, "It is on the manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established that...— they are the very stuff his work is made of." In an earlier letter of 1871 James states of America, "the face of the nature and civilization in this... | |
 | Herbert Read - 1929 - 248 pages
...proposition that seems to me so true as to be a truism. It is on manners, customs, usages, habits, forms, upon all these things matured and established, that a novelist lives — they are the stuff his work is made of; and in saying that in the absence of those 'dreary and worn-out paraphernalia'... | |
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