A little one-eyed blinking sort of place.
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
A little one-eyed blinking sort of place.
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some cannot!
Thomas Hardy
Lord love ‘ee, neither court-paying, nor preaching, nor the seven thunders themselves, can wean a woman when ‘twould be better for her that she should be weaned.
Thomas Hardy
Once victim, always victim-that’s the law!
Thomas Hardy
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
What it means May contain spoilers.
Our interpretation.
The definition provocatively treats patience as a mixture of moral courage and physical timidity. It offers a pointed comparison rather than a universal account of patient people’s motives.
Context reviewed
That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
Thomas Hardy