To speak of these things,... «Henry James: Autobiography»
innashpitzberg25 марта 2012To speak of these things, in truth, however, is to feel the advantage of being able to live back into the time of the more sovereign periodical appearances much of a compensation for any reduced prospect of living forward. For these appearances, these strong timemarks in such stretches of production as that of Dickens, that of Thackeray, that of George Eliot, had in the first place simply a genial weight and force, a direct importance, and in the second a command of the permeable air and the collective sensibility, with which nothing since has begun to deserve comparison. They were enrichments of life, they were large arrivals, these particular renewals of supply--... These various, let alone numerous, deeper-toned strokes of the great Victorian clock were so many steps in the march of our age, ...
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