 | 1928 - 872 psl.
...was, he said, " neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame ; but, like man, slighted and enduring. ... As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance." And so he deals with it as he might deal with one of his invented characters. He shows it to us in... | |
 | 1878 - 686 psl.
...from the Alps to the sand-dunes of Scheveningen. The most thorough-going ascetic could feel that he had a natural right to wander on Egdon : he was keeping...possibilities. This obscure tract of land, this superseded country, this obsolete thing, figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 psl.
...environment perfectly accordant with man's nature — a scene neither ghastly, hateful, nor ngly ; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like...suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure tract of laud, this superseded country, this obsolete thing, figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded... | |
 | 1879 - 978 psl.
...after the dream till revived by scenes like these." " It was at present [late on a November afternoon] an environment perfectly accordant with man's nature,...its swarthy monotony. As with some persons who have lived long apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face suggesting tragical... | |
 | 1913 - 880 psl.
...neither ghastly, hateful, nof ugly: neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities!" Its age, in Mr. Hardy's view, carries us much further back than the age of "the salt, unplumbed, estranging... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 psl.
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 psl.
...ghastly, hateful, nor ugly : neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame ; but, like man, slighted and enduring ; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. . . . Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape — far-reaching proofs productive... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 534 psl.
...man, slighted ari3 enduring an3 withal singularly rnlossa)_"qnd mysterious in It? swarthy pinnntony. As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude...to look out of its countenance. It had a ( lonely f^oe[ suprpjesting tragical possibilities. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday.... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 psl.
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly: neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring: and withal, singularly colossal and mysterious...monotony. As with some persons who have long lived far apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance. It had a lonely face, suggesting tragical... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 472 psl.
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly: neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as that of heathy,... | |
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It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony.... 
