“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their plumage dabbled with blood... some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Rural solitude, which provides ample themes for the intellect and sweet occupations innumerable for the minor sentiments, often denies a ready object… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
