Don't let any one persuade you — there are plenty of ignorant and fatuous duffers to try to do it — that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is [not] substance to that degree that there is absolutely no... The Bookman1920Full view - About this book
| Henry James - Authors, American - 1920 - 548 pages
...try to do it — that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is [not] substance to that degree that there...not tasteless, because the amount of their own minds and souls in solution in the broth gives it savour and flavour, thanks to the strong, rank quality... | |
| China - 1923 - 434 pages
...the adequate expression of the idea. To them as to the art-haunted intellect of Henry James, "Form is substance to that degree that there is absolutely no substance without it." That the reverse of this proposition is also true, that there can be no form without substance, is... | |
| Agnes E. Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst Meyer - Painting, Chinese - 1923 - 328 pages
...adequate expression of the idea. To them as to the art-haunted intellect of Henry James, " Form is substance to that degree that there is absolutely no substance without it." That the reverse of this proposition is also true, that there can be no form without substance, is... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1938 - 126 pages
...try to do it — that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is not substance to that degree that there is...swim in as in a sea of tasteless, tepid pudding." And Mr. Justice Cardozo adds : "This is my own faith. The argument strongly put is not the same as the... | |
| Henry James - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 274 pages
...try to do it — that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is [not] substance to that degree that there...capable of such degradations. Tolstoi and D. are fluid pudding, though not tasteless, because the amount of their own minds and souls in solution in the broth... | |
| Henry James, James Edwin Miller - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 394 pages
...try to do it — that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is [not] substance to that degree that there...not tasteless, because the amount of their own minds and souls in solution in the broth gives it savour and flavour, thanks to the strong, rank quality... | |
| Robert L. Belknap - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 224 pages
...the older I grow and the more I go the more sacred to me do the picking and composing become. . . . Form alone takes, and holds and preserves, substance...we swim in as in a sea of tasteless tepid pudding. . . .Tolstoi and D. are fluid puddings, though not tasteless, because the amount of their own minds... | |
| Evelyne Ender - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 324 pages
...Hugh Walpole, the apprentice writer: "Form alone takes, and holds and preserves, substance—saves it from the welter of helpless verbiage that we swim...one ashamed of an art capable of such degradations" (Selected Letters, 400). The danger lies indeed in the combination of fluidity and the kind of literary... | |
| Peter Kaye - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
..."strenuous selection" as the "very essence of art" and defines the novel strictly in terms of form: "Form alone takes, and holds and preserves substance...one ashamed of an art capable of such degradations." Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, according to the letter to Walpole. degrade art; they are "fluid pudding."... | |
| Milton R Konvitz - Biography & Autobiography - 200 pages
...James wrote, "... that strenuous selection and comparison are not the very essence of art, and that Form is not substance to that degree that there is...substance, saves it from the welter of helpless verbiage." The passage from James is followed by Cardozo saying, "This is my own faith."6 The intertwining of... | |
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