 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
 | Laurie Langbauer - 1999 - 258 pages
...description so much, he quoted it in his autobiography: Trollope's novels, Hawthorne wrote "are just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of...its inhabitants going about their daily business" (Autobiography, 144). This image suggests a substitution of part for whole that begins to put the whole... | |
 | Millicent Bell - 2005 - 238 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...going about their daily business, and not suspecting they were being made a show of. (XVIII 229) Hawthorne did not give a name to the "class" to which Trollope's... | |
 | Richard Menke - 2008 - 344 pages
...praise as exemplifying the kind of realism he hoped to achieve, a mode of fiction that seemed "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 A, 144). Hawthorne's comments expand Carlyle's glass-bell isolation of a man from his letters... | |
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