 | 1909 - 844 pages
...his work was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne: — Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste, solid and substantial,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...letter from England, some time before Trollope began to be mueh known in Ameriea. " They preeisely suit my taste ; solid and substantial, written on...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
...current in society are very keen.— Cmujregationalist, Boston. " Have yon ever read these novels f They precisely suit my taste ; solid and substantial,...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 584 pages
...should be able to get through them." At another time he had written of Anthony Trollope's novels : " They precisely suit my taste ; solid 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 the earth and... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - Prohibition - 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.... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - English literature - 1892 - 482 pages
...generally 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 608 pages
...accomplished just what he attempted: " Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope ? " Hawthorne asks. ''They precisely suit my taste. Solid and substantial,...inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant bad hewn a great lump out of the earth, and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going... | |
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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 of earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going... 
