The description of Mr. Wagge made me think of Obidiah Slope in Trollope’s Barchester series. From Wordnik.com. [Easter and Prizes « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
I have read Milford, partially read Köhle; Mrs. Trollope is impossible, and several others that I have impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
I haven’t read this yet (Trollope is a lifetime project!) but was similarly intirgued by its description on Radio 4 and will do soon. From Wordnik.com. [Neglected Classics and Unbound Women « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
I mean, when she got into "Trollope," the marriage was almost over because you know how many volumes of "Trollope" there are. From Wordnik.com. [Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World] Reference
The line, then, would be drawn to exclude Trollope. From Wordnik.com. [Notable & Quotable] Reference
People Like Us owed more to Trollope than to Capote. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks Peters: Life of the Party: Dominick Dunne Remembered] Reference
Instances are abundantly cited by Otto and Trollope. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Trollope harbors considerable sympathy for his villain. From Wordnik.com. [Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer] Reference
The experts on the team include Ms S Ebrahim-Trollope of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I've also been on a Trollope binge and it's not over yet. From Wordnik.com. [Interview: Author] Reference
'What a world within a world is the Temple!' wrote Trollope. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter] Reference
Trollope, would be perfectly fitted with this polite addition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
But let us give Trollope the benefit of the doubt for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter] Reference
There exists a forgery in imitation of these Acts. See Trollope. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Trollope, one of our greatest authorities, on the occasion of the. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
With Trollope we weep, if it so happen we can, for a given shame or wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Trollope left England in August, 1861, and returned in the spring of 1862. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
I was in the middle of a Palliser obsession, and Kirk was engaging on Trollope. From Wordnik.com. [A Modest Case For a Burkean Boomlet] Reference
Altogether different is the method of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) in his fifty novels. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Usually I will read or re-read an older novel that -- Trollope, Dickens, something like that. From Wordnik.com. [Tenured Radicals] Reference
Trollope and set it here to throw off its atmosphere like a fragrance from rectory to chantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
So in youth we eagerly read of blood and glory and wild adventure; Trollope is insufferably dull. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
According to Trollope, "not on account of (or at the instigation of) the demons before mentioned.". From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
It is, however, less of Trollope than of Howells that Tasma reminds the reader in this first story. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
Hawthorne, one may even go so far as to say that Trollope did not know a good Short-story when he saw it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
Trollope often described the eddying greed and curiosity and caution and faux morality of political society. From Wordnik.com. [Conrad Black Gets Out Of Jail] Reference
Only Deleah felt in her heart the sorrow of it all -- Deleah who was a reader of Thackeray, of Trollope, of Dickens, of. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Trollope, the mother, and Theodosia Trollope, her more than devoted daughter, are united in death as they had been in life. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
Trollope, long a traveling employé in the post-office service, was a man of very assertive and somewhat commonplace nature. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
If you enjoy Tolstoy or Trollope, you really should try Ina Rilke's new translation of this superb, albeit too little-known book. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy and Trollope Fans, Meet Couperus] Reference
But already the mood of the systematiser was strong in me; the mood which led Trollope so endlessly to elaborate his Bassetshire. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
It is just half the amount that Trollope earned in about the same period, and justifies his remark -- "adequate, but not splendid.". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
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