Quotes by Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also bl — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one. — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She i — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeobright: what is he do — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constitu — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole in the middle of th — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
She went indoors in that peculiar state of misery which is not exactly grief, and which especially attends the dawnings — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native