 | 1878 - 758 psl.
...wanting. Gay prospects wed happily with gay times ; but alas, if times be not gay ! Men have often er suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for...a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox leauty is not approaching its last quarter. The new vale of Tempe may be a gaunt waste in Thule : human... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 psl.
...attractions were utterly wanting. Gay prospects wed happily with gay times ; but, alas, if times be not gay ! Men have oftener suffered from the mockery...a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learned emotion, than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming. Indeed, it is a question... | |
 | John Dando Sedding - 1891 - 290 psl.
...glory of a waste like Egdon to Mr. Hardy! ("The Return of the Native," pp. 4, 5). For Egdon Heath, " Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct,...which responds to the sort of beauty called charming and fair. Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox beauty is not approaching... | |
 | Thomas Gunn Selby - 1896 - 208 psl.
...of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings sadly overtinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct,...which responds to the sort of beauty called charming and fair. . . . The new Vale of Tempe may be a gaunt waste in Thule ; human souls may find themselves... | |
 | Thomas Gunn Selby - 1896 - 204 psl.
...culpability, and baseness of the past. We are reminded of " the imperturbable countenance of the heath." " Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place...their reason than from the oppression of surroundings sadly overtinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 psl.
...kind are utterly wanting. Fair prospects wed happily with fair times; but alas, if times be not fair! Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place...which responds to the sort of beauty called charming and fair. not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be... | |
 | Francis Hovey Stoddard - 1900 - 274 psl.
...that the great writer of to-day appeals to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learned emotion than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming. It may be a question, as Hardy suggests in his " Return of the Native," " if the exclusive claim of... | |
 | John Dando Sedding - 1903 - 272 psl.
...glory of a waste like Egdon to Mr Hardy! ("The Return of the Native," pp. 4, 5). For Egdon Heath, " Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct,...learnt emotion than that which responds to the sort ot beauty called charming and fair. Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 psl.
...are utterly wanting. Fair prospects wed happily with fair times ; but alas, if times be not fair ! Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place...oppression of surroundings over-sadly tinged. Haggard Egdou appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which... | |
 | John Webster - 1857 - 308 psl.
...hero. "Gay £ prospects wed happily with gay times," says Hardy, "but alas'.x A if times be not gay!" "Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler ^ . ^ and scarcer instinct; to a more recently learned emotion, than^f <V that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming." * '^\ Y "The... | |
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Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which... 
