 It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense of deeper impoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. It was...  The South Atlantic Quarterly - Page 264edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 1338 pages
...of deeper empoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions shrank to insignificance. It was indeed miserable to be poor...absorption in the dingy communal existence of the boarding-house. But there was something more miserable still — it was the clutch of solitude at her... | |
 | Edith Wharton - American literature - 1905 - 786 pages
...material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense of deeper empoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outward...to be poor — to look forward to a shabby, anxious middle-nge, leading by dreary degrees of economy and self-denial to, gradual absorption in the dingy... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1906 - 902 pages
...an impressive paragraph. " It waa no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that »he turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense...impoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outer conditions dwindled into insignificance. It was indeed miserable to be poor — to look forward... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1906 - 894 pages
...an impressive paragraph. " It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense...impoverishment — - of an inner destitution compared to which outer conditions dwindled into insignificance. It was indeed miserable to be poor — to look forward... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Drew - American fiction - 1926 - 296 pages
...and that it is not really money she needs, but a sense of human interdependence. She had a sense ... of an inner destitution compared to which outward...conditions dwindled into insignificance. . . . It was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the... | |
 | James W. Tuttleton, Kristin O. Lauer, Margaret P. Murray - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 592 pages
...in an impressive paragraph: "It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense...impoverishment — of an inner destitution compared to which outer conditions dwindled into insignificance. It was indeed miserable to be poor — to look forward... | |
 | Gloria C. Erlich - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 240 pages
...poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense of deeper empoverishment—of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance.... It was the clutch of solitude at her heart... the feeling of being something rootless and ephemeral, mere... | |
 | Robin Peel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 364 pages
...she fears more than poverty: It was no longer, however, from the vision of material poverty that she turned with the greatest shrinking. She had a sense...absorption in the dingy communal existence of the boarding-house. But there was something more miserable still — it was the clutch of solitude at her... | |
 | Gavin Jones - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 248 pages
...(316), Lily comes to the full realization that material hardship is by no means her greatest dread: She had a sense of deeper impoverishment— of an...to be poor— to look forward to a shabby, anxious middle age, leading by dreary degrees of economy and self-denial to gradual absorption in the dingy... | |
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