Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Henry JamesThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Henry JamesI recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her personality in glimpses and gleams, like a song sung in snatches, but now it was before me in a large rosy glow, as if it had been a full volume of sound. I heard the whole of the air, and it was sweet fresh music, which I was often to hum over.(Sir Edmund Orme)
Henry James