 | Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...satisfaction the judgment of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who said of Trollope's works that they were 'solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef,...their daily business and not suspecting that they were being made a show of. ... It needs an English residence to make them thoroughly comprehensible; but... | |
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...Hawthorne: — Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste, solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and...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... | |
 | 1924 - 680 pages
...criticism than when Nathaniel Hawthorne, recalling one of Grimm's fairy-tales, said that his books were 'just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump...daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of,' something like the ants' nests that used to be a popular exhibit in Mr. Gamage's... | |
 | 1923 - 670 pages
...irrelevancies both — runs little risk of a second eclipse. His novels, as Hawthorne said, are 'solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale.' Henceforth they will endure, not only for our solace and delight, but as a picture of the life of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1904 - 872 pages
...you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope ? ' he writes. ' They precisely suit my taste — solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and...their daily business and not 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,'... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...some time before Trollope began to be mueh known in Ameriea. " They preeisely suit my taste ; solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and...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 - 794 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 - 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... | |
 | Harper and brothers - Publishers' catalogs - 1880 - 374 pages
...Cmujregationalist, Boston. " Have yon ever read these novels f They precisely suit my taste ; solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and...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... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Authors, English - 1883 - 288 pages
...through them. Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope ? They precisely suit my taste, — solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and...daily business, and not 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... | |
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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... 
