← He was twenty-one years old. 🔊
← Soames was quite five or six years older than either of us. 🔊
← Of "the older men," as he called them, he seemed to like only Milton. 🔊
← It was true, what I'd time and again been told: He was old—old. 🔊
← But I did, at the time of its publication, say to Rothenstein that I thought poor old Soames was really a rather tragic figure, and that I believed he would literally die for want of recognition. 🔊
← It was the sort of thing that in old days he would have said for effect; but it carried conviction now. 🔊
← I don't think it lived long enough to justify its name; but at that time there it still was, in Greek Street, a few doors from Soho Square, and almost opposite to that house where, in the first years of the century, a little girl, and with her a boy named De Quincey, made nightly encampment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments. 🔊
← "The proper names seemed all to be spelt in the old way. 🔊
← And he added, with a touch of his old manner, but with more dignity than I had ever known in him, "Parlons d'autre chose." 🔊
← Was this the very door-step that the old De Quincey used to revisit in homage? 🔊