← Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties 🔊
← When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. 🔊
← And how can I write about Enoch Soames without making him ridiculous? 🔊
← "Enoch Soames," said Enoch. 🔊
← "Enoch Soames," repeated Rothenstein in a tone implying that it was enough to have hit on the surname. 🔊
← It did now occur to me: suppose Enoch Soames was a fool! 🔊
← Nevertheless, I did, a day or two later, tentatively ask Harland if he knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. 🔊
← Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊
← After all, the name Max Beerbohm is not at all an uncommon one, and there must be several Enoch Soameses running around, or, rather, Enoch Soames is a name that might occur to any one writing a story. 🔊
← It is well that vanity should be chastened; and Enoch Soames's vanity was, I admit, above the average, and called for special treatment. 🔊