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
bring far mass million pay peace priests sing thousand
Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, / And pay a million priests to bring it. / After two thousand years of mass / We've got as far as poison-gas.
love paths smile
Smile out; but still suffer: / The paths of love are rougher / Than thoroughfares of stones.
snow spare till time waits
I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.
victim
Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
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
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.
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
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 . . .
love heart discretion
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
thinking heaven black
You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!