 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
 | Anthony Trollope - 1883 - 288 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. Have they ever been tried in America ? It needs an English... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1883 - 286 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. Have they ever been tried in America ? It needs an English... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 584 pages
...and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspi( ! ration 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." Before leaving England for the last time, Hawthorne went up alone to London, and spent... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 600 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." Before leaving England for the last time, Hawthorne went up alone to London, and spent... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 648 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." Before leaving England for the last time, Hawthorne went up alone to London, and spent... | |
 | 1927 - 844 pages
...taste; solid, 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. If we get a few more books like this biography of Trollope, some persons may begin... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1887 - 554 pages
...be huge than cultured, in the artistic sense. It was, as Hawthorne said of a brother author's works, "as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth." There seemed to be > no time for art. So long as he had the substance, the form was of little moment.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 592 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." Before leaving England for the last time, Hawthorne went up alone to London, and spent... | |
 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - 1891 - 282 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...daily business, and not suspecting that they were made a show of. And these books are just as English as a beefsteak. Have they ever been tried in America?... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pages
...known: Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste — just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting... | |
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