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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Henry James
Book, Reading, Read Between The Lines
Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.928, Book House

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James
Reading, Epic, Envelopes
Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

Henry James
Country, War, Reading
Henry James (1882). “The portrait of a lady”

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

Henry James
Reading, Pieces, Hated

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