Frederick Rolfe
Hadrian the Seventh
(1904)
- Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.
- Prooimion, p. 58
- He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.
- Ch. 13, p. 223
- An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
- Ch. 19, p. 296
- That cold white candent voice which was more caustic than silver nitrate and more thrilling than a scream.
- Ch. 22, p. 335
- Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.
- Ch. 22, p. 343
- Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.
- Ch. 24, p. 360
Hadrian the Seventh
Penguin Modern Classics, Harmondsworth, 1963
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