 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1886 - 988 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....mixture, — that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies... | |
 | Henry James - 1921 - 292 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....mixture — that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover ; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1924 - 244 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....mixture — that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies... | |
 | Charles Child Walcutt - 380 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....mixture — that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover.' " (Chapter 34.) These ringing words make Verena "slightly sick"; she could... | |
 | Judith Fetterley - 1978 - 232 ˹éÒ
...Most critics see the scene as a reflection of Ransom's innate generosity of spirit, his possession of the "masculine character, the ability to dare and endure, to know and yet not fear reality (P- 343)' or, as Trilling would have it, as evidence of the instinctive bonding together of men in... | |
 | Daniel T. O'Hara - 1988 - 340 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....the ability to dare and endure, to know and yet not to fear reality, to look the world in the face and take it for what it is—a very queer and partly... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - 1989 - 534 ˹éÒ
...if they don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and most pretentious that has ever been. The masculine...dare and endure, to know and yet not fear reality . . . that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that... | |
 | Alfred Habegger - 2004 - 312 ˹éÒ
...it straight. Basil's speeches (unlike Verena's, which do lack conviction) shake with berserker fury: "The masculine character, the ability to dare and endure, to know and yet not fear reality ... - that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1990 - 340 ˹éÒ
...sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been....— that is what I want to preserve, or rather, I may say, recover; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies [the... | |
 | Jane Roland Martin - 1995 - 252 ˹éÒ
...In Henry James's 1886 novel The Bostonians, Basil Ransom says that his interest is in his own sex: The masculine character, the ability to dare and endure,...mixture — that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies... | |
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The masculine character, the ability to dare and endure, to know and yet not fear reality, to look the world in the face and take it for what it is, — a very queer and partly very base mixture... 
