John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Thomas Hardy. (18401928)
1 When false things are brought low, And swift things have grown slow, Feigning like froth shall go, Faith be for aye.
Between us now.
2 Whence comes solace? Not from seeing, What is doing, suffering, being; Not from noting Lifes conditions, Not from heeding Times monitions; But in cleaving to the Dream And in gazing at the Gleam Whereby gray things golden seem.
On a fine Morning.
3 Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
The Dynasts. Fore Scene. Spirit of the Pities.
4 A local thing called Christianity.
The Dynasts. Spirit of the Years. Sc. 6.
5 Aggressive Fancy working spells Upon a mind oerwrought.
The Dynasts. Act i. Sc. 6. Napoleon.
6 Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.
The Dynasts. Act ii. Sc. 5. Semichorus.
7 My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
The Dynasts. Spirit sinister.
8 A nice unparticular man.
Far from the madding Crowd.
9 A little one-eyed blinking sort of place.
Tess of the DUrbervilles.
10 Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
The Hand of Ethelberta.
11 A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
The Hand of Ethelberta.