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
care deserving english-novelist everybody honour nowadays people remain talent talented
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
listen silence wonderful
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
buds drew forth invisible jets lifted opened rays sap stretched sucked sunrise
Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.
dreads elf final half lest maiden modest rise
There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!
blinded thou
So zestfully canst thou sing? / And all this indignity, / With God's consent, on thee! / Blinded ere yet a-wing.
both lived parochial wives
And both of us, scorning parochial ways, / Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.
fire home shall whenever
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be
class dislike excessive mean parents regard
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
devotion english-novelist lover
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
english-novelist good
You was a good man, and did good things.
drops families hang
And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I
based contract error feeling lives permanent ruined temporary
Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .
anybody keys shining took ways wish wishes
All her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her little wishes and ways will all be as nothing.
love heart discretion
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.