 To Let" — the Forsyte age and way of life, when a man owned his soul, his investments, and his woman, without check or question. And now the State had, or would have, his investments, his woman had herself, and God knew who had his soul. "To Let...  Scribner's Magazine - Pagina 281a cura di - 1921Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1921 - 218 pagine
...but the record of a Victorian theory of family and of life, in the last stage of its disintegration. "A man owned his soul, his investments and his woman...have his investments, his woman had herself, and God knows who had his soul". — Soames Forsyte. Howells, WD Mrs. Farrell. Friendship between men, in conflict... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1921 - 340 pagine
...and that dead fellow sitting side by side in the Stand at Lord's. To her and that boy at Robin Hill. To the sofa, where Fleur lay crushed up in the corner;...simple creed ! The waters of change were foaming in, canying the promise of new forms only when their destructive flood should have passed its full. He... | |
 | 1921 - 962 pagine
...and tho book closes with a picture of him, seated in Highgate Cemetery, dreaming over his career. " 'To Let," the Forsyte age and way of life, when a...had his soul. "To Let," that sane and simple creed! MATRIMONIAL MISFITS " Д BOND dissoluble at will in the •*"*• divorce court is not a foundation... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1921 - 334 pagine
...career, faithful to the scut of his possessive instinct, warming himself even with its failures. , man owned his soul, his investments, and his woman;...his soul. "To Let" — that sane and \ simple creed I „,••" The waters of change were foaming in, carrying the promise of new forms only when then-... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1922 - 902 pagine
...Forsyte age and way of life, when a man Dwned his soul, his investments, and his woman, without check Dr question. And now the State had, or would have, his...had herself, and God knew who had his soul. '' To Let"—ithat sane and simple creed! The waters of change were foaming in, carrying the promise of new... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1922 - 486 pagine
...divorce and remarriage, continuing generation after generation, to end in 1920 with irreparable damage to "the Forsyte age and way of life, when a man owned...investments, and his woman, without check or question." When the curtain is rung down, Nemesis has done her work with due regard to modern ideas of efficiency.... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1923 - 370 pagine
...all engulfed in one vast, ugly, shoulder-rubbing, petrol-smelling cheerio," to depict the dying of " the Forsyte age and way of life when a man owned his...investments and his woman without check or question." Into all this hugger-mugger was the exquisite Fleur born — '" to-day with its Tubes and cars, its... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1926 - 494 pagine
...possessive instinct, warming himself even with its failures. "To Let"—the Forsyte age and way of life, 473 when a man owned his soul, his investments, and his...woman had herself, and God knew who had his soul. "To Let"—that sane and simple creed! The waters of change were foaming in, carrying the promise of new... | |
 | 1921 - 768 pagine
...collection, begins to suspect that "the possessive principle has got its shutters up." He used to think that "a man owned his soul, his investments, and his woman without check or question. And now the sta^e had, or would have, his investments, his woman had herself, and God knew who • had his soul."... | |
 | 1922 - 1036 pagine
...the finish Soames sits thinking over what he has seen in his sixtyfive years. He laments for the days when a man ' owned his soul, his investments, and his woman without check or question.' Now, he reflects bitterly, ' the State had or would have his investments, his woman had herself, and... | |
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