A pair of blue eyes

by Thomas Hardy · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 9 · 5,816 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Didactic fiction · Elopement — Fiction · Separation (Psychology) — Fiction · Triangles (Interpersonal relations) — Fiction

Words worth knowing: resultant · facade · gossamer · nohow · longingly · domineer · compression · cottager

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.” CONTENTS PREFACE 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 mediævalism 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.

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