 For weeks, for months, if I remember rightly, from year to year, I would carry on the same tale, binding myself down to certain laws, to certain proportions, and proprieties, and unities. Nothing impossible was ever introduced, nor even anything which,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5811883Full view - About this book
 | England - 1883 - 830 pages
...hand, he was by no means illiterate. He could have given a 582 Aulobiography of Anthony Trollope. 583 pretty fair list of the poets, and perhaps of the...philosopher. But I was a very clever person, and beautiful yonng women used to be fond of me. And I strove to be kind of heart, and open of hand, and noble in... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Novelists, English - 1883 - 286 pages
...impossible was ever introduced, — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...personal appearance were fixed could I be an Antinous, or six feet high. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Authors, English - 1883 - 286 pages
...impossible was ever introduced, — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...personal appearance were fixed could I be an Antinous, or six feet high. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - Authors, English - 1883 - 288 pages
...impossible was ever introduced, — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own hero. Such is a necessity of castle -building. But I never became a king, or a duke, — much less when my height and personal appearance... | |
 | English literature - 1884 - 502 pages
...impossible was ever introduced — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...personal appearance were fixed could I be an Antinous, or six feet high. 1 never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 522 pages
...impossible was ever introduced — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...my height and personal appearance were fixed could 1 be an Antinous, or six feet high. 1 never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a... | |
 | Book collecting - 1901 - 882 pages
...impossible was ever introduced — nor even anything which from outward circumstances would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was, of course, my...castle-building. But I never became a king or a duke. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person, and beautiful. Young... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1909 - 318 pages
...impossible was ever introduced — nor even anything which from outward circumstances would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was, of •course,...castle-building. But I never became a king or a duke. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person, and beautiful. Young... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1912 - 348 pages
...impossible was ever introduced, — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...personal appearance were fixed could I be an Antinous, or six feet high. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1922 - 340 pages
...impossible was ever introduced, — nor even anything which, from outward circumstances, would seem to be violently improbable. I myself was of course my own...personal appearance were fixed could I be an Antinous, or six feet high. I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person,... | |
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