Posts tagged “Anthony Trollope”
An American romance
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: ‘Miss Melmotte, you do not know the glorious west. Your past experiences have been drawn from this effete and stone-cold country in which passion is no longer allowed to sway. On those golden shores which the Pacific washes man is still true, – and woman is […]
The new conservatives
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: Melmotte might become as it were a Conservative tribune of the people, – that he might be the realization of that hitherto hazy mixture of Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us […]
A woman who had fought a duel
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: Was it not his duty, as a man, to tell everything to herself? To speak to her thus: – ‘I am told that your life with your last husband was, to say the least of it, eccentric; that you even fought a duel with him. I […]
Humiliation relived
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: Who does not know that sudden thoughtfulness at waking, that first matutinal retrospection, and pro-spection, into things as they have been and are to be; and the lowness of heart, the blankness of hope which follows the first remembrance of some folly lately done, some word […]
Being Good
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: The woman was affectionate, seeking good things for others rather than for herself; but she was essentially worldly, believing that good could come out of evil, that falsehood might in certain conditions be better than truth, that shams and pretenses might do the work of true […]
Being happy
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, – never reached but always coming. She, however, had not looked for happiness to love and loveliness, and need […]
Journalism today / Journalism a century ago
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope: The ‘Evening Pulpit’ was supposed to give daily to its readers all that had been said and done up to two o’clock in the day by all the leading people in the metropolis, and to prophesy with wonderful accuracy what would be the sayings and doings […]