HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO3022 4/8/03 "SOURCE OF RN ALLUSION QUESTION"
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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:31:29 +0100
From: "Marta Rabikowska" <Rabikom@edgehill.ac.uk>
Subject: Quotation


Dear All,
could you please help me to indentify the following words from Hardy's novel:
"The spirit moved them". A meaning of the phrase forced itself upon the attention; and an emotional listener's fetichistic mood might have ended in one or more advanced quality. It was not, after all, that the left-hand expanse of old blooms spoke, or the right-hand, or those of the slope in front; but it was the single person of something else speaking through each at once.

Thank you very much,
Marta Rabikowska

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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:55:59 -0400
From: Keith Wilson <kgwilson@uottawa.ca>
Subject: Re: Quotation


It's from the seventh paragraph of Chapter 6 ("The Figure Against the Sky") of Book One of _The Return of the Native"
All the best,
Keith Wilson

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From: "Gary Alderson" <Gary.Alderson@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Quotation
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:07:17 +0100


That's where it is in Hardy, but it's made me wonder where he was quoting
from. It's a common expression in Christian circles, particularly among
Protestants and especially Quakers and Pentecostals. But I think it's not a
verbatim quote from the King James Version of the Bible. The nearest I can
think of to it is in 2 Peter 1:21. "For no prophecy ever came by the will of
man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit."

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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:57:34 -0300
From: Mary Rimmer <mrimmer@unb.ca>
Subject: Re: Quotation
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Tony Slade has an extensive note on this in the Penguin _Native_,
though he didn't find an exact source either!

Mary Rimmer

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Department of English, University of New Brunswick
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Fredericton, NB Canada
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