Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

The defective can be more than the entire.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.