 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
 | Desmond Byrne - 1896 - 326 pages
...accorded by Nathaniel Hawthorne to the novels of Anthony Trollope when he spoke of them as being ' as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...not suspecting that they were being made a show of.' It is, however, less of Trollope than of Howells that Tasma reminds the reader in this first story.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 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 beefsteak." Although Trollope wrote for money, as he frankly admits,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant bad hewn a great lump out of the earth, and put it under...suspecting that they were being made a show of; and these books are just as English as a beefsteak." Although Trollope wrote for money, as he frankly admits,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...solid, 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.' Trollope was delighted, as he well might be, with such praise from so different a writer, and declares... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 pages
...Thackeray (1879). Hawthorne's verdict on Trollope is likely to be final : " His characters are 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." Trollope, however, was by no means a giant, unless we take his industry into account.... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 422 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?... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 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." Of this criticism Trollope wrote "the criticism, whether just or unjust, describes with wonderful accuracy... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...solid, and substantial, written in 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...going about their daily business, and not suspecting they were being made a show of. " According to his own statement, Anthony Trollope was the most voluminous... | |
 | Adrian Hoffman Joline - 1909 - 232 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." Yet in these days they cannot be expected to compete with such illuminating representations... | |
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