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Thomas Hardy buch Tess of the d'Urbervilles
phase the Sixth: The Convert, ch. XLVI
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy buch The Mayor of Casterbridge
Quelle: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 44
“To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet.”
Statement (5 August 1888), as quoted in The life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 (1962) by Florence Emily Hardy
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. V, ch. 2
The Return of the Native (1878)
And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.</p>
"The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the Titanic), lines 22-33
Desperate Remedies (1871), vol. 2, ch. 4
Thomas Hardy buch The Mayor of Casterbridge
Quelle: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 18
“Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.”
Thomas Hardy buch The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 1
Thomas Hardy buch Jude the Obscure
Pt. I, ch. XI
Jude the Obscure (1895)
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. I, ch. 1
The Return of the Native (1878)
“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
<p>This quote can be traced to two authors, in books published within the same year:</p><p>1) Rev. Edward John Hardy, known as E.J. Hardy (1849-1920), How to Be Happy Though Civil: A Book on Manners (New York, Scribners, 1909), ch. VI: A Christian Gentleman;
2) John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Peace and Happiness (Macmillan, 1909), ch. XV: Religion</p>
Misattributed
“Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.”
" During Wind and Rain http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/96.html", lines 27-28, from Moments of Vision (1917)
Quoted in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930), by Florence Emily Hardy, ch. 17, p. 212
“How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of?”
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. V, ch. 3
The Return of the Native (1878)
Quelle: " The Voice http://www.portablepoetry.com/poems/thomas_hardy/the_voice.html" (1912), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
Thomas Hardy buch The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 2
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. IV, ch. 1
The Return of the Native (1878)
Thomas Hardy buch Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Second: Maiden No More, ch. XIII
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
“Ah," she said to herself, "want of an object to live for—that's all is the matter with me!”
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. II, ch. 4
The Return of the Native (1878)
Thomas Hardy buch The Mayor of Casterbridge
Quelle: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 1
Thomas Hardy buch Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Third: The Rally, ch. XX
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”
Thomas Hardy buch Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, ch. XLIII
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Thomas Hardy buch The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20
" The Ghost of the Past http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Thomas_Hardy/2715", lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. I, ch. 1
The Return of the Native (1878)
" Afterwards http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Hardy/Afterwards.htm", lines 1-4, from Moments of Vision (1917)
“Aggressive Fancy working spells
Upon a mind o’erwrought.”
Thomas Hardy The Dynasts
Pt. I, sc. vi, Napoleon
The Dynasts (1904–1908)
“See what deceits love sows in honest minds!”
Thomas Hardy buch Two on a Tower
Two on a Tower (1882), vol 2, ch. 1 (Viviette Constantine speaking to Swithin St Cleeve)
“Good, but not religious-good.”
Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), ch. 2
Thomas Hardy buch The Return of the Native
Bk. I, ch. 2
The Return of the Native (1878)
