 If her earthly career had taught her few book philosophies it had at least well practised her in this.Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she...  Rambles in Books - Page 50by Charles Francis Blackburn - 1893 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1893 - 1008 pages
...Elizabeth. She, who " had early learned the lesson of resignation, and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun," is the first to offer company and consolation to the man whom all the world abandons; and there is... | |
 | Literature - 1895 - 656 pages
...prettily done." " She, who had early learned the lesson of mismated love, was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun." And yet daily dialogues like the above brought her no nearer the goal of her desires. Compare with... | |
 | Lance St John Butler - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 192 pages
...optimisms and aspirations: She had learnt the lesson of renunciation, and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of...philosophies it had at least well practised her in this. (chapter 25) I think that this is Hardy's own voice. The second of these sentences, especially, seems... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1997 - 420 pages
...had risen in the skies. She had learnt the lesson of renunciation, and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of...philosophies it had at least well practised her in this.Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of... | |
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