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" ... own. The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by... "
The Living Age - Page 275
1912
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

1904 - 884 pages
...reds, was a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a Joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly In words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this" (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr. James has shared In the special impulse...
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The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1

Henry James - 1902 - 348 pages
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. " Than she? You'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well...
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The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1

Henry James - 1902 - 346 pages
...very great personage —only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be I better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. " Than she ? You'd scarce need to be better,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 198

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 - 1903 - 698 pages
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this " ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 198

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 - 1903 - 700 pages
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this" ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 198

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 - 1903 - 688 pages
...a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this " ' (p. 183). This is but one of many passages that show how Mr James has shared in the special impulse...
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Modern Studies

Oliver Elton - 1907 - 388 pages
...reds, was a very great personage, only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly in words that had nothing to...do with her. ' I shall never be better than this.' This is only one of many passages that show how Mr. James has shared in the special impulse towards...
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The Novels and Tales of Henry James: The wings of the dove

Henry James - 1909 - 348 pages
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. "Than she? You'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well...
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The Novels and Tales of Henry James, Volume 19

Henry James - 1909 - 342 pages
...very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this." He smiled for her at the portrait. "Than she? You 'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well...
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The Dial: A Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism ..., Volume 60

Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 pages
...reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognized her exactly in words that had nothing to...do with her. "I shall never be better than this." With the habit of occasional obscurity came the power to write prose like this. Even in the most confusing...
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