That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
Thomas HardyThough not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.
Thomas HardyTags: character-defining
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas HardyThey were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
Thomas HardyThe atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
Thomas HardyTags: colors description painting atmosphere landscape
Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
Thomas HardyTags: landscape
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
Thomas HardyTags: characterization
Don't that make your bosom plim?
Thomas HardyTags: humorous dialectics
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Thomas HardyTags: description characterization
A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.
Thomas HardyTags: senses
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