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'By absence this good means I gain, That I can catch her, Where none can watch her, In some close corner of my brain: There I embrace and kiss her; And so I ...
English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity. --- Return of the Native byThomas Hardy
Poet and novelist Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford, Dorset, England on this day in 1840.
"She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind — or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units." —from TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891)
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One of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day. Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy’s early work, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/tess-of-the-durbervil…/
Christopher was now over five-and-twenty. He was getting so well
accustomed to the spectacle of a world passing him by and splashing him
with its wheels that he wondered why he had ever minded it. His habit of
dreaming instead of doing had led him up to a curious discovery. It is
no new thing for a man to fathom profundities by indulging humours: the
active, the rapid, the people of splendid momentum, have been surprised
to behold what results attend the lives of those whose usual plan for
discharging their active labours has been to postpone them indefinitely.
Certainly, the immediate result in the present case was, to all but
himself, small and invisible; but it was of the nature of highest things.
What he had learnt was that a woman who has once made a permanent
impression upon a man cannot altogether deny him her image by denying him
her company, and that by sedulously cultivating the acquaintance of this
Creature of Contemplation she becomes to him almost a living soul. Hence
a sublimated Ethelberta accompanied him everywhere--one who never teased
him, eluded him, or disappointed him: when he smiled she smiled, when he
was sad she sorrowed. He may be said to have become the literal
duplicate of that whimsical unknown rhapsodist who wrote of his own
similar situation--
'By absence this good means I gain, 不見也有不見的好處：
That I can catch her, 我倒可以見著她，
Where none can watch her, 不怕有誰監著她，
In some close corner of my brain: 在我腦海的深窈處；
There I embrace and kiss her; 我可以抱著她，親她的臉；
And so I both enjoy and miss her.' 雖然不見，抵得長相見。
This frame of mind naturally induced an amazing abstraction in the
organist, never very vigilant at the best of times.
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. It was written, in serial form, for the Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by Leslie Stephen, a friend and mentor of Hardy's. Unlike the majority of Hardy's fiction, the novel is a comedy, with both humour and a happy ending for the major characters and no suicides or tragic deaths. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing, who knew Hardy, considered it 'surely old Hardy's poorest book'.[1]
A Daughter of the D'Urbervilles? Here is an autograph manuscript of Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, where the original title was crossed out. You can see revisions to the dialogue, marking changes from standard English to dialectal phrasing, such as ‘t'ye’ and ‘well as I know 'ee by sight’. #ManuscriptMonday
，札記，寫信，談話，演說，作文，都有這種作用。札記是為自己的了解的；談話，討論，寫信，是求一個朋友的了解的；演說，作文，是求一群人的了解的，這都是「發揮」，都有幫助自己了解的功用。
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