 I have alluded to there was a comfortable, good-humoured feeling abroad that a novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that our only business with it could be to swallow it.  Partial Portraits - Página 335por Henry James - 1888 - 408 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Walter Besant - 1885 - 106 páginas
...it is destined to suffer in any way for having lost its naivete, it has now an idea of making Bure of the corresponding advantages. During the period I have alluded to there was a comfortable, good-humored feeling abroad that a novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that this was the... | |
 | 1904 - 654 páginas
...history in a smile. He still refuses to take the British view, which he anathematised twenty years ago, "that a novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that our only business is to swallow it." He is still disposed to begin a tale in the light-hearted, ingratiating way that... | |
 | 1906 - 774 páginas
...least ductile, least inclusive of literary forms. There was a comfortable feeling, as Mr. James says, that a novel is a novel as a pudding is a pudding,...our only business with it could be to swallow it. Love was the eternally recurrent theme: the French still have only one word for novel — roman. Marriage... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1906 - 226 páginas
...is doubtless a long day's journey from the " comfortable, goodhumored feeling" of the average reader "that a novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding," * and that consequently our only business with it can be to swallow it. But however remote from our goal, no startingpoint... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 348 páginas
...character and emotion. The contemporary reader is no longer allowed to cherish the comfortable feeling that a novel is a novel as a pudding is a pudding, in Mr. Henry James's phrase, and that our only business with it would be to swallow it! Physical, material... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 382 páginas
...character and emotion. The contemporary reader is no longer allowed to cherish the comfortable feeling that a novel is a novel as a pudding is a pudding, in Mr. Henry James's phrase, and that our only business with it would be to swallow it ! Physical,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1912 - 756 páginas
...English novel was not what the French call discutable. . . . There was a comfortable, good-humored feeling abroad that a novel is a novel, as a pudding...our only business with it could be to swallow it." It was nearly two hundred years after the decline of Elizabethan tragedy that the Elizabethan theatre... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 páginas
...another French word) ; and evidently if it be destined to suffer in any way for having lost its na1vete it has now an idea of making sure of the corresponding...pudding, and that our only business with it could be to swaflow it. But within a year or two, for some reason or other, there have been signs of returning... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...another French word) ; and evidently if it be destined to suffer in any way for having lost its naivete it has now an idea of making sure of the corresponding...period I have alluded to there was a comfortable, good-humored feeling abroad that a novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that our only business... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 páginas
...another French word); and, evidently, if it is destined to suffer in any way for having lost its naivete, it has now an idea of making sure of the corresponding...novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that this was the end of it. But within a year or two, for some reason or other, there have been signs of... | |
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