Template:RQ:Hardy Life's Little Ironies

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Thomas Hardy's work Life's Little Ironies (1st collected edition, 1894; 1912 version). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library:

• 1st collected edition, 1894.
• 1912 version (the story "An Imaginative Woman" was added to the work, and "A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four" and "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Region" transferred to Wessex Tales).

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1st collected edition (1894)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Hardy Life's Little Ironies|story=For Conscience' Sake|page=27|passage=Whether the utilitarian or the intuitive theory of the moral sense be upheld, it is beyond question that there are a few subtle-souled persons with whom the absolute '''gratuitousness''' of an act of reparation is an inducement to perform it; while exhortation as to its necessity would breed excuses for leaving it undone.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Hardy Life's Little Ironies|For Conscience' Sake|27|Whether the utilitarian or the intuitive theory of the moral sense be upheld, it is beyond question that there are a few subtle-souled persons with whom the absolute '''gratuitousness''' of an act of reparation is an inducement to perform it; while exhortation as to its necessity would breed excuses for leaving it undone.}}
• Result:
  • 1894, Thomas Hardy, “For Conscience’ Sake”, in Life’s Little Ironies , London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, page 27:

    Whether the utilitarian or the intuitive theory of the moral sense be upheld, it is beyond question that there are a few subtle-souled persons with whom the absolute gratuitousness of an act of reparation is an inducement to perform it; while exhortation as to its necessity would breed excuses for leaving it undone.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Hardy Life's Little Ironies|story=The Superstitious Man's Story|pages=253–254|pageref=253|passage=e saw one of those great white miller's souls as we call 'em—that is to say, a '''miller-moth'''—come from William's open mouth while he slept, and fly straight away.}}
• Result:
  • 1894, Thomas Hardy, “ The Superstitious Man’s Story”, in Life’s Little Ironies , London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, pages 253–254:

    e saw one of those great white miller's souls as we call 'em—that is to say, a miller-moth—come from William's open mouth while he slept, and fly straight away.

1912 version

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Hardy Life's Little Ironies|year=1912|story=An Imaginative Woman|page=5|passage=Husband and wife walked till they had reached the house they were in search of, which stood in a terrace facing the sea, and was fronted by a small garden of wind-proof and salt-proof '''evergreens''', stone steps leading up to the porch.}}
• Result:
  • 1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 5:

    Husband and wife walked till they had reached the house they were in search of, which stood in a terrace facing the sea, and was fronted by a small garden of wind-proof and salt-proof evergreens, stone steps leading up to the porch.