Two on a Tower - Thomas Hardy - Bøger -  - 9798569080441 - 22. november 2020
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Two on a Tower

'Ah, my heart! her eyes and sheHave taught thee new astrology. Howe'er Love's native hours were set, Whatever starry synod met, 'Tis in the mercy of her eye, If poor Love shall live or die.'CRASHAW: Love's Horoscope. On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex. The spot was where the old Melchester Road, which the carriage had hitherto followed, was joined by a drive that led round into a park at no great distance off. The footman alighted, and went to the occupant of the carriage, a lady about eight- or nine-and-twenty. She was looking through the opening afforded by a field-gate at the undulating stretch of country beyond. In pursuance of some remark from her the servant looked in the same direction. The central feature of the middle distance, as they beheld it, was a circular isolated hill, of no great elevation, which placed itself in strong chromatic contrast with a wide acreage of surrounding arable by being covered with fir-tre

Medie Bøger     Paperback Bog   (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet 22. november 2020
ISBN13 9798569080441
Antal sider 560
Mål 140 × 216 × 32 mm   ·   703 g
Sprog Engelsk  

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