 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
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...at Exeter" (FP, 1). One is reminded of Hawthorne's famous remark that Trollope's novels are "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with INTRODUCTION / 5 all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 350 pages
...Trollope so proudly quotes in An Autobiography. Trollope's novels, wrote Hawthorne in 1860, are "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...and not suspecting that they were being made a show of."9 In spite of these qualities of passivity, self-effacing transparency, and abnegation, however,... | |
 | Oliver MacDonagh - 1991 - 212 pages
...Commentary, revised edn. (London, 1945), p. 240 n. 1. Hawthorne wrote of Trollope's novels as '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. 41. JA to Cassandra, 25 Apr [1811], Letters, p. 273. 42. Sense and Sensibility, Notes,... | |
 | Milton R. Stern - 1991 - 224 pages
...solid and substantial, written on strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and (ust 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.24 Trollope then said, "That is what he could read himself, but could not possibly have... | |
 | George Levine - 1991 - 334 pages
...primary authority. Trollope prided himself on Hawthorne's famous comment that his novels were "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...its inhabitants going about their daily business" (Autobiography, p. 125). Christopher Herbert suggests that seeing "Trollope's characters as specimens... | |
 | Clara Claiborne Park - 1991 - 260 pages
...the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste — solid and substantial . . . just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their business, and not suspecting they were made a show of. Hawthorne recognized Trollopc's achievement,... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - 1994 - 568 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 what he could read himself, but could not possibly have produced, — any... | |
 | Donald Smalley - 1995 - 600 pages
...Hawthorne had in 1860 testified to the sense of life he had found in Trollope's novels, which were just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...not suspecting that they were being made a show of'. 15 Edward FitzGerald, who was fond of having Trollope's novels read aloud to him, found himself treating... | |
 | Bryan Homer - 1998 - 484 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?... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1999 - 934 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...not suspecting that they were being made a show of. (Quoted in Autobiography, p. 144.) CH AFTER XXXV Page 362. . . . as old as Enoch: 'And the days of... | |
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