 The place became full of a watchful intentness now ; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries,...  The Living Age - Page 961913Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1878 - 978 pages
...none could say. It had waited unmoved during so many centuries, through the crises of so many other things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | Belgravia - 1878 - 546 pages
...none could say. It had waited unmoved during so many centuries, through the crises of so many other things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | 1878 - 758 pages
...none could say. It had waited unmoved during so many centuries, through the crises of so many other things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 pages
...seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crisis of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 pages
...hereon, while day stood distinct in the sky. . . . The place became full of a watchful intentness now ; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath...to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 250 pages
...as rapidly as the heavens precipitated it. ... The place became full of a watchful intentness now ; for when other things sank brooding to sleep, the...to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. . . . Twilight combined with the scenery «3S of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 534 pages
...it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that lt could only be imagined to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 pages
...fraternization towards which each advanced halfway. The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath...to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. . . „ . . . Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pages
...fraternization towards which each advanced halfway. The place became full of a watchful intentness now ; 15 for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath...of so many things, that it could only be imagined 20 to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 472 pages
...fraternization towards which each advanced half-way.| The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath...to await one last crisis — the final overthrow. It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly... | |
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