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...A Little Tour In France by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...excursions resolved themselves ulti- mately into a journey through several provinces,—a jour- ney which had its dull moments (as one may defy any jour... ...turn to the capital. I must not speak, however, as if I had discovered the provinces. They were discovered, or at least re-vealed by BaIzac, if by any... ...ize, stiff and terrible, with outstretched arms. On either side of him are ranged three or four angels, with the instruments of the Passion. Beneath h... ...face was an obvi- ous subject for a sketch. The little port, which has two basins, and is accessible only to vessels of light tonnage, 87 Henry James... ...be doubly so when the Roman busts, inscriptions, slabs and sarcophagi, are ranged along the walls; it must in- deed (to compare small things with grea... ...h hill (covered with trees and laid out in paths), and is distributed into basins which sufficiently refer themselves to the period that gave them bir...
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...The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N... ...The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The ... ... R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... form— its power not only, while preserving that form with close- ness, to range through all the differences of the indi- vidual relation to its gener... ...NOT open; “fortunately” by reason, precisely, of this incalcu- lability of range. The spreading field, the human scene, is the “choice of subject”; th... ...hyness of demeanour, and of having, as she thought, eyes like the balanced basins, the circles of “or- namental water,” set, in parterres, among the g... ...friend so honourably old that he vaguely asked himself what queer temporal province she was an- nexing. He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to who...
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... The Portrait of a Lady HENRY JAMES 1881 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources... ... summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would no... ...dows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perh... ... and an expression of placid acuteness. It was evidently a face in which the range of rep resentation was not large, so that the air of contented shr... ...grey eyes, a little too firm perhaps in her graver moments, had an enchanting range of concession. They walked slowly up one side of the gallery and do... ... shyness of demeanour, and of having, as she thought, eyes like the balanced basins, the circles of “ornamental water,” set, in parterres, among the g... ...a friend so honourably old that he vaguely asked himself what queer temporal province she was annexing. He exchanged greetings with Mr. Osmond, to who...
...ish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. T...
...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ambassadors by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ... thus yielded, the instance in hand should enjoy the advantage of the full range of the ma- jor; since most immediately to the point was the ques- tio... ...he happiest of accidents; his actualities, all too definite, precluded any range of possibilities; it had only been his charming of- fice to project u... ...d twilight that had settled on this side of his companion’s life. It was a province in which mystery reigned and as to which Waymarsh had never spoken... ... propriety, and the effect was still stronger when, always considering the basin and jug, he added: “You’ve filled out some since then.” “I’m afraid I... ...er mystifying for the five minutes of an encounter at a railway-station en province, during which it had come out that her life was all changed. Miss ...
...face: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted or ?sunk,? stiffly and ...
...to relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest possible. I have already b...