A pair of blue eyes
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:17Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:17Z |
| dc.date.created | 1873 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3114 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3114 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3114 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1873. |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.format.mimetype | text/xml |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2167 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | A pair of blue eyes |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 4410019 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
This item is
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Publicly Available
and licensed under:Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Files for this item
Download all local files for this item (4.21 MB)
- Name
- 3114.epub
- Size
- 392.26 KB
- Format
- Unknown
- Description
- Version of the work for e-book readers in the EPUB format
- Name
- 3114.html
- Size
- 950.5 KB
- Format
- HTML
- Description
- Version of the work for web browsers
- Name
- 3114.mobi
- Size
- 1.4 MB
- Format
- Unknown
- Description
- Version of the work for e-book readers in the Mobipocket format
- Name
- 3114.txt
- Size
- 714.42 KB
- Format
- Text file
- Description
- Version of the work in plain text with all tags and formatting information removed
A Pair of Blue Eyes
by
Thomas Hardy
'A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.'
PREFACE
The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural attempts at newness there. To restore the grey carcases of a mediaevalism whose spirit had fled, seemed a not less incongruous act than to set about renovating the adjoining crags themselves.
Hence it happened that an imaginary history of three human hearts, whose emotions were not without correspondence with these material circumstances, found in the ordinary incidents of such church-renovations a fitting frame for its presentation.
The shore and . . .
- Name
- 3114.xml
- Size
- 812.82 KB
- Format
- XML
- Description
- Version of the work in the original source TEI XML file
