Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
communion ought
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
sensual ethereal inhuman
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
men another-man
Always wanting another man than your own.
sex men suffering
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
eye curves years
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
years long extinction
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
sweet brother flower
He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.
half forgotten impression
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
men execution hours
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
struggle blue yellow
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
simplicity bless tess
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
perfect humanity would-be
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
strength strong-women tess-of-the-d-urbervilles
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
expression feelings littles
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.