 ... 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 2751912Full view - About this book
 | Karen Jacobs - 2001 - 340 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' " (James 1965, 144). Just as the aestheticization of the narrator's gaze and its objects confronts... | |
 | Sabine Sielke - 2003 - 276 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". (147) Diese Passage ist äußerst vieldeutig. Milly Theale, die erst kürzlich ihre Eltern und Geschwister... | |
 | Allan Lloyd-Smith - 2004 - 216 pages
...joy. And she was dead, dead, dead.63 Others see the likeness, but Milly feels it most deeply: "Milly recognized her exactly in words that had nothing to...do with her. 'I shall never be better than this.'" That, appropriately, the subject of the portrait, Lucrecia Panciatachi, was condemned to death for... | |
 | Henry James - 2006 - 754 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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