 spoke at once—his salutation remained. He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire. She "never exactly understood," she would say in after years, "how he managed to strengthen...  A Room with a View - Page 315by Edward Morgan Forster - 1922 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...for Lucy to meet George's father, to be shaken by him out of cant, waste, and muddle. For Mr. Emerson "robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting" and taught Lucy "the holiness of direct desire." Could Miss Bartlett have meant this to happen? George... | |
 | Oliver S. Buckton - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 292 pages
...recognize the sexual epiphany that has occurred, irrevocably, between herself and George: "[Mr. Emerson] had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts...sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire" (225). Though completed several years before his first visit to Millthorpe, A Room with a View dramatizes... | |
 | John V. Knapp, Kenneth Womack - American literature - 2003 - 342 pages
...something for the whole world.” Years later, Forster writes, Lucy “never exactly understood. . . how he managed to strengthen her. It was as if he...had made her see the whole of everything at once.” 32 After having acquired the ostensible (and unchallenged) wisdom inherent in Mr. Emerson's words,... | |
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