There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the... heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, empha...tic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which frequently invest the facade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the facade of a palace double its size lent to this health a sublimity in which spots renowned for beauty of the accepted kind are utterly wanting. Fair prospects wed happily with fair times; but alas, if times be not fair!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awak...e and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis--the final overthrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson... mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexteritry the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Witch. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?... 2nd Witch. When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. 3rd Witch. That will be ere set of sun. 1st Witch. Where the place? 2nd Witch. Upon the heath. 3rd Witch. There to meet with Macbeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ossian reminds us of the most refined and rudest eras, of Homer, Pindar, Isaiah, and the American Indian. In his poetry, as in Hom...er's, only the simplest and most enduring features of humanity are seen, such essential parts of a man as Stonehenge exhibits of a temple; we see the circles of stone, and the upright shaft alone. The phenomena of life acquire almost an unreal and gigantic size seen through his mists. Like all older and grander poetry, it is distinguished by the few elements in the lives of its heroes. They stand on the heath, between the stars and the earth, shrunk to the bones and sinews. The earth is a boundless plain for their deeds. They lead such a simple, dry, and everlasting life, as hardly needs depart with the flesh, but is transmitted entire from age to age. There are but few objects to distract their sight, and their life is as unencumbered as the course of the stars they gaze at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon we ...rage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure ...by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »