Tag Archives: Anthony Trollope

“Quite frankly.”

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Naomi

For a while now, I’ve been mentally compiling my own little dictionary of words and phrases I would like never to read or hear again for maybe a decade, because they have been used in such a way they don’t … Continue reading →

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Are you a zealous reformer, an idealist like this guy?

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Naomi

…Bold is a strong reformer. His passion is the reform of all abuses; state abuses, church abuses, corporation abuses (he has got himself elected a town councillor of Barchester, and has so worried three consecutive mayors, that it became somewhat … Continue reading →

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Whom do you think of when reading this Trollope excerpt?

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Naomi

There is great doubt as to what may be the most enviable time of life with a man. I am inclined to think that it is at that period when his children have all been born but have not yet … Continue reading →

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