“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”
The Playground of Europe (1871; London: Longmans, Green, 1899) p. 131
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“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”
The Playground of Europe (1871; London: Longmans, Green, 1899) p. 131
The Nineteenth Century, vol. 13 (1883) p. 665
Studies of a Biographer: Second Series (London: Duckworth, 1902) vol. 3, p. 261
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”
Quote by Thomas Hardy from The life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 by Florence Emily Hardy ASIN: B0027MJJSI Macmillan (1 Jan 1962)
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The Fortnightly Review, vol. 34 (1880) p. 177
Sketches from Cambridge http://books.google.com/books?id=mjA4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22If+you+wish+at+once+to+do+nothing+and+to+be+respectable+now-a-days+the+best+pretext+is+to+be+at%22+%22work+on+some+profound+study%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage (1865)
The Fortnightly Review, vol. 25 (1876) p. 859
Fraser's Magazine, New Series, vol. 5 (1872) p. 160
Samuel Johnson (1878), repr. In John Morley (ed.) English Men of Letters (New York: Harper, 1894) vol. 6, p. 60