Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . t, but more explicitly in his later books, MrHardy has proclaimed that human life is governedby inscrutable forces ; that human beings arepuppets of fate, and destined to misery. Froman artistic point of view, it is difficult to securethe full effect of tragedy in a book where tragedyitself is treated as hardly more than a deeper tinge 6S2 Thomas Hardy of the common leaden colour in the human lot,and
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . t, but more explicitly in his later books, MrHardy has proclaimed that human life is governedby inscrutable forces ; that human beings arepuppets of fate, and destined to misery. Froman artistic point of view, it is difficult to securethe full effect of tragedy in a book where tragedyitself is treated as hardly more than a deeper tinge 6S2 Thomas Hardy of the common leaden colour in the human lot,and it might be fair to say that in the Return ofthe Native the final impression is rather that ofhuman miserableness than of human grief Butthis cannot be said of Tess and Jiide the we have a true rendering of the anguish ofthe human spirit, of the depths, though not of theheights, in life. From The Return of the place became full of a watchful intentness now;for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heathappeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night itsTitanic form seemed to await something; but it hadwaited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through. THOMAS HARDY. From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. the crises of so many things, that it could only beimagined to await one last crisis—the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memorj- of thosewho loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly con-gruity. Smiling champaigns of flowers and fruit hardlydo this, for they are permanently harmonious only withan existence of better reputation as to its issues than thepresent. Twilight combined with the scenery of EgdonHeath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, im-pressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions,grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which fre-quently invest the facade of a prison with far moredignity than is found in the fa9ade of a palace doubleits size lent to this heath a sublimity in which
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