Author: Thomas Hardy

Cites

• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: The Woodlanders (1887) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not boskiest how'r, When hearts are ill affin'd, Hath tree of pow'r, To shelter from the wind!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Crashaw (1)
  • IN: Two on a Tower (1882) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ah, my heart! her eyes and she Have taught thee new astrology. Howe'er Love's native hours were set, Whatever starry synod met, 'Tis in the mercy of her eye, IF poor Love shall live or die.
    FROM: Love's Horoscope, (1648), Poem, UK
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1)
  • IN: The Well-Beloved (1897) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One shape of many names.
    FROM: The Revolt of Islam (previously Laon and Cyntha), (1817), Poem, UK
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
  • IN: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed Shall lodge thee.
    FROM: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, (1623), Play, UK
• Sir Scott, Walter (1)
  • IN: Desperate Remedies (1871) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Though a course of adventures which are only connected with each other by having happened to the same individual is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance-writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality.
    FROM: The Monastery, (1820), Book, UK
• John Keats (1)
  • IN: The Return of the Native (1878) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly, She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind.
    FROM: Endymion, (1818), Poem, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Jude the Obscure (1895) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The letter killeth.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• R. Crashaw (1)
  • IN: The Well-Beloved (1892) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: —‘Now, if Time knows That Her, whose radiant brows Weave them a garland of my vows; Her that dares be What these lines wish to see: I seek no further, it is She.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• L’Allegro. (1)
  • IN: A Group of Noble Dames (1891) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . . Store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Lucretius (1)
  • IN: The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Vitae post-scenia celant.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL

Cited by

• Niall Ferguson (1)
  • IN: The Pity of War (1998) Non-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' / And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?'
    FROM: "And there was a Great Calm", (1920), Poem, UK
• Thomas Hardy (1)
  • IN: The Woodlanders (1887) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Not boskiest how'r, When hearts are ill affin'd, Hath tree of pow'r, To shelter from the wind!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Leona Francombe (1)
  • IN: The Sage of Waterloo (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Yea, the coneys are scared by the thud of hoofs, And their white scuts flash at their vanishing heels...
    FROM: The Field of Waterloo, (1908), Poem, UK
• Erin Kelly (1)
  • IN: Broadchurch (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn't there.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Natasha Solomons (2)
  • IN: The Song of Hartgrove Hall (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me.
    FROM: The Voice, (1914), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Song Collector (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me.
    FROM: The Voice, (1914), Poem, UK
• Stephen White (1)
  • IN: Missing Persons (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … Peace is poor reading.
    FROM: The Dynasts, (1904), Play, UK
• Mark Billingham (1)
  • IN: Die of Shame (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If a way to the Better there be, it exacts full look to the worst.
    FROM: De Profundis, (1902), Poem, UK
• Patrick Gale (1)
  • IN: Rough Music (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Let us shut it out,' coaxed Elizabeth-Jane, noting that the rigid wildness of Lucetta's features was growing yet more rigid and wild with the nearing of the noise and laughter. 'Let us shut it out!'
    FROM: The Mayor of Casterbridge, (1886), Novel, UK
• Elizabeth Jolley (1)
  • IN: Foxybaby (1985) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . . To be conscious that the end of the dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a passion and its end.
    FROM: The Return of the Native, (1878), Novel, UK