 They precisely suit my taste, - solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants...  The Living Age - Page 2941909Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...glass case with all its inhabitants going about their dally business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of. And these The Times. books... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 pages
...solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...suspecting that they were being made a show of. And these books are just as English as a beef-steak.' It was in his ' Autobiography,' which was published after... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1904 - 600 pages
...they precisely suited his taste, " solid and substantial, just as real as if some giant had hewn a lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case...their daily business and not suspecting that they were made a show of." Of his own MOSSES PROM AN OLD MANSE he says, " Upon my honour I am not quite sure... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 pages
...solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef 'and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...their daily business and not suspecting that they were made a show of. And these books are as English as a beefsteak. Have they ever been tried in America... | |
 | 1879 - 686 pages
...solid and substantial, written on strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of." This is wBat he could read himself, but could not possibly have produced, — any... | |
 | 1879 - 470 pages
...solid and substantial, written on strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of." It would be difficult to describe Mr. Trollope's " wholesome " works in more precise... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass ease, with ail its inhabitants going about their daily business and not suspeeting that they were made... | |
 | 1879 - 802 pages
...sometimes affords the relief of cessation of thought. What is a work of art ? Is it solid and substantial, as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth ? The author of The Gay Science, apropos of this question of realism or idealism, says : " It may appear... | |
 | 1879 - 796 pages
...sometimes affords the relief of cessation of thought. What is a work of art ? Is it solid and substantial, as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth ? The author of The Gay Science, apropos of this question of realism or idealism, says : " It may appear... | |
 | Harper and brothers - 1880 - 374 pages
...solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under д glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business and not suspecting that they... | |
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