 | Henry James - 1908 - 458 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed ; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession. So had she heard of those wrecked and under water following a train of images before they sink. But... | |
 | Henry James - Americans - 1909 - 452 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed ; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession. So had she heard of those wrecked and under water following a train of images before they sink. But... | |
 | Henry James - 1909 - 456 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed ; it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...justified of its intense identity and made one with this act_o£_poss£s§iQn. So had she heard of those wrecked and under water following a train of images... | |
 | Charles Child Walcutt - 380 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession. . . . But when darkness returned she was free. . . . She had not known where to turn; but she knew... | |
 | Dorothea Krook-Gilead - Consciousness in literature - 1962 - 440 pages
...Goodwood raises by itself no problem. As he kisses her, 'it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...figure, his presence, justified of its intense identity 1 The Portrait of a Lady, n, 51, pp. 31 1-12. » P. 34 above. 362 and made one with this act of possession';... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - Fiction - 1989 - 534 pages
...Goodwood. When finally she submits to his awful kiss, 'it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession. So had she heard of those wrecked and under water following a train of images before they sank. But... | |
 | William H. Gass - Art - 1976 - 102 pages
...Henry James, quite unconsciously, goes on to say that 'it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession.' But he never made this mistake again. The blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue... | |
 | E. Miller Budick - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 308 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession" (482). Isabel may well object to this kiss, which does reveal a lot about Caspar, not to mention Osmond... | |
 | Henry James - Fiction - 1996 - 532 pages
...flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...identity and made one with this act of possession. So had she heard of those wrecked and under water following a train of images before they sink. But... | |
 | Garrett Stewart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 416 pages
...images, we would need go no farther than the sentence just before. In the grip of Goodwood's kiss, Isabel "felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least...justified of its intense identity and made one with the act of possession." Taking that last noun in both senses, we find a self-possessed masculine aspect... | |
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed ; and it was extraordinarily as if, while she took it, she felt each thing in his hard manhood that had least pleased her, each aggressive fact of his face, his figure,... 
