“Clare could bear this no longer. His eyes were full of tears, which seemed like drops of molten lead. He bade a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She could not explain the subtleties of her feeling as clearly as he could state his opinion, even though she had skill… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“On this particular day her father, the vicar of a parish on the sea-swept outskirts of Lower Wessex, and a widower, was… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Why - what the name - began her father. I thought you went out to get the parsley!” — 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
