Key Quotes - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Nature and Modernity)

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Chapter 2
"The forests have departed, but some old customs of their shades remain. Many, however, linger only in a metamorphosed or disguised form"
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Chapter 5
"Tess Durbeyfield did not divine, as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom"
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Chapter 16
"women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systematized religion taught their race at a later date"
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Chapter 18 (Angel speaking about Tess)
"What a fresh and virginal daughter of Nature that milkmaid is"
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Chapter 19
"She was expressing in her own native phrases...feelings which might almost have been called those of the age - the ache of modernism"
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Chapter 24
"Amid the oozing fatness and warm ferments of the Froom Vale, at the season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fermentation"
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Chapter 35 (Angel to Tess"
"Here was I thinking you are a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy"
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Chapter 5

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"Tess Durbeyfield did not divine, as she innocently looked down at the roses in her bosom"

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Chapter 16

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Chapter 18 (Angel speaking about Tess)

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Chapter 19

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