 Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation...  Richard Wagner and the Modern British Novel - Page 96by John Louis DiGaetani - 1978 - 179 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1924 - 686 pages
...She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...of the isolation that is life to either, will die. "Nor was the message difficult to give. It need not take the form of a good 'talking.' By quiet indications... | |
 | Edward Morgan Forster - Country homes - 1921 - 492 pages
...She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...of the isolation that is life to either, will die. Nor was the message difficult to give. It need not take the form of a good " talking." By quiet indications... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - Books and reading - 1921 - 332 pages
...could be a little ashamed of loving a wife. . . . And it was here that Margaret hoped to help him . . . only connect ! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...of the isolation that is life to either, will die." If we demand of modern novels that they should portray human character exactly as it is and that the... | |
 | Edward Morgan Forster - Country homes - 1921 - 352 pages
...soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole ^f her sermon. Only connect the prose and jhfc passion, and both will be exalted, and human love...of the isolation that is life to either, will die. Nor was the message difficult to give. It need not take the form of a good "talking." By quiet indications... | |
 | Lionel Trilling - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 212 pages
...in the hay, he is also the symbol of the "Only connect!" which was Margaret's clue to the good life. "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both...exalted, and human love will be seen at its height." 8. A PASSAGE TO INDIA THE YEARS BETWEEN 1910 AND 1914 WERE THE VESTIBULE to what Forster has called... | |
 | George Stade - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 324 pages
...how she can point out to Henry Wilcox the salvation that is possible from within him and every man: “Only connect the prose and the passion, and both...the isolation that is life to either, will die.” But she has not counted on Henry's obtuseness; she cannot get her ideas across to him. Throughout,... | |
 | Thomas Albert Sebeok, Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 756 pages
...Chapter 22 does he, however, explicitly develop this leitmotif. The complacent Margaret ruminates: Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
..."Only connect.... "—a profound sentiment. It is taken from the opening paragraphs of chapter 22: "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...of the isolation that is life to either, will die." That is not a prediction but a prophecy, a vision. Does it seem genial because it is imagined that... | |
 | Ellen Y. Siegelman - Psychology - 1993 - 230 pages
...CONNECTION THROUGH BODY AFFECT In a famous passage in EM Forster's Howard's End (1921), the heroine says, Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only...the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted . . . Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation... | |
 | Adwaita P. Ganguly - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 442 pages
...how she can convince Henry Wilcox of the salvation which is possible from within him and every man: “Only connect the prose and the passion, and both...will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation... | |
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