← Nor is there a counterpoise in the thought that if he had had some measure of success he might have passed, like those others, out of my mind, to return only at the historian's beck. 🔊
← But it is from those very results that the full piteousness of him glares out. 🔊
← Those who knew Rothenstein were pointing him out to those who knew him only by name. 🔊
← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← No one is a better judge of literature than Rothenstein; but it wouldn't have done to tell him so in those days, and I knew that I must form an unaided judgment of "Negations." 🔊
← Not to buy a book of which I had met the author face to face would have been for me in those days an impossible act of self-denial. 🔊
← These were the opening phrases of the preface, but those which followed were less easy to understand. 🔊
← They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing. 🔊
← Soames repeated those last three words in a tone of intense scorn. 🔊
← Next time that building and those creatures will be real. 🔊