5 Thomas Hardy Quotes on History

Thomas Hardy quotes on history

22. In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

28. Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thin smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass. Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die.

56. So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.

70. Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.

71. My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.