“An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.”
Frederick Rolfe book Hadrian the Seventh
Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 19, p. 296
Quotes from bookHadrian the Seventh
Hadrian the Seventh is a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo".Rolfe's best-known work, this novel of extreme wish-fulfilment developed out of an article he wrote on the Papal Conclave to elect the successor to Pope Leo XIII. The prologue introduces us to George Arthur Rose : a failed candidate for the priesthood denied his vocation by the machinations and bungling of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical machinery, and now living alone with his yellow cat.
“Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired.”
Frederick Rolfe book Hadrian the Seventh
Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 24, p. 360
“He took the imperial hand and shook it in the glad-to-see-you-but-keep-off English fashion.”
Frederick Rolfe book Hadrian the Seventh
Source: Hadrian the Seventh (1904), Ch. 13, p. 223
