 It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly: neither common-place, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted and enduring; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious in its swarthy monotony....  The Living Age - 96. oldal1913Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1928 - 872 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1893 - 840 oldal
...finds the face of Egdon Heath " perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly, neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame, but, like man, slighted and enduring." Yet it was on Egdou Heath Granfer Cantle chirruped out his eighty years, while for Eustacia love and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 oldal
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ngly ; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but, like man, slighted, enduring, and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure tract of laud, this superseded country, this obsolete thing, figures in Domesday. Its... | |
 | 1878 - 758 oldal
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly : neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame ; but, like man, slighted, enduring ; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure tract of land, this superseded country, this obsolete thing, figures in Domesday. Its... | |
 | Belgravia - 1878 - 546 oldal
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly : neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame ; but, like man, slighted, enduring ; and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure tract of land, this superseded countiy, this obsolete thing, figures in Domesday. Its... | |
 | 1879 - 978 oldal
...neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly, neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame, but, like man, slighted, enduring, and withal singularly colossal and mysterious...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... | |
 | 1893 - 684 oldal
...finds the face of Egdon Heath " perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly. neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame, but, like man, slighted and enduring." Yet it was on Egdon Heath Granfer Cantle chirruped out his eighty years, while for Eustacia love and... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 oldal
...this. It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly; neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame; but,...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. This obscure, obsolete, superseded country figures in Domesday. Its condition is recorded therein as... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 oldal
...this. It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature — neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly : neither commonplace, unmeaning, nor tame ;...a lonely face, suggesting tragical possibilities. . . . Here at least were intelligible facts regarding landscape — far-reaching proofs productive... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 534 oldal
...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.... | |
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