 Nothing 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5791883Full view - About this book
 | Michael Sadleir - Novelists, English - 1927 - 464 pages
...months from year to year I would carry on the same tale. ... I myself was, of course, my own hero. I never became a king or a duke — much less, when...and personal appearance were fixed, could I be an * A Survey of English Literature 1830-1880, by Oliver Elton. (London, 1920.) t Charles Dickens and... | |
 | John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1094 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,... | |
 | Wilhelm Dilthey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 414 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,... | |
 | Scotland - 1883 - 826 pages
...in boyish daydreams on which he afterwards looked back with dismay, but which he is right no donbt in supposing tended to make him what he was. His boy-life...and personal appearance were fixed, could I be an Antinoiis of six feet high. I never was a learned man, or even a philosopher. But I was a very clever... | |
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