← 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. 🔊
← "Yes, I gave you a copy of it." 🔊
← The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. 🔊
← I inclined to give Soames the benefit of the doubt. 🔊
← I said mildly that I wasn't, either, and murmured that an artist who gave truly new and great things to the world had always to wait long for recognition. 🔊
← His nose was predatory, and the points of his mustache, waxed up behind his nostrils, gave a fixity to his smile. 🔊
← What I wanted to say was, "Any artist who gives truly new and great things to the world has always to wait long for recognition"; but the flattery would not out: 🔊
← In your theaters the dullest comedien needs only to say 'The devil!' and right away they give him 'the loud laugh what speaks the vacant mind.' Is it not so?" 🔊
← What you have said just now gives me furiously to hope." 🔊
← The sheen of his tilted hat and of his shirt-front, the repeated twists he was giving to his mustache, and most of all the magnificence of his sneer, gave token that he was there only to be foiled. 🔊