Frank Harris

To depict the mortal so that he takes on immortality—that is the task of the artist.

soul-animating influence

: I do not wish to aggravate the gravity of the charge in the slightest by any rhetoric or by an unconscious overstatement;

his wife was a highfalutin' pretentious creature whose pride was as extravagant as her reputation founded on second-rate verse-making

the names given to him seem to reveal the Nationalist sympathies and pride of his mother.

He was then, as he remained for some years after, extremely boyish in nature, very mobile, almost restless when out of the schoolroom. Yet

"Even as a schoolboy he was an excellent talker: his descriptive power being far above the average, and his humorous exaggerations of school occurrences always highly amusing.

"The romances that impressed him most when at school were Disraeli's novels.
He spoke slightingly of Dickens as a novelist. . . . .

power of twisting his limbs into weird contortions being very great.

As early as I can remember I used to identify myself with every distinguished character I read about,