Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure by Hardy Thomas

Author:Hardy, Thomas [Hardy, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-04-14T21:00:00+00:00

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  1. From Long’s translation (1862) of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180), Roman emperor and philosopher.

  2. In English law, a court order for divorce is conditional for six months, after which it is made absolute or final, unless cause to the contrary be shown.

  3. Ancient Greek goddess of retributive justice and punishment.

  4. Married (slang).

  5. Head (slang).

  6. Meaning obscure: perhaps “singleton,” or “loner.”

  7. Soldier.

  8. Model for the famous statue Aphrodite of Cnidus by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles. “Via Sacra”: road in ancient Rome. Octavia was sister of the emperor Augustus and wife of Mark Antony. Livia was wife of Augustus. Aspasia was mistress of Pericles and celebrated as an intellectual.

  9. From “Song” by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844).

10. Low-class public house.

11. Job 3.3.

12. Greek muse of tragedy.

13. Deuteronomy 20.7 (not quite accurately quoted).

14. Instruments for trimming the wick of, or extinguishing, candles.

15. Instructions for conducting church services in the Book of Common Prayer used in the Church of England.

16. Fitting, proper (dialect).

17. Hanged on a gallows.

18. In Greek legend, the house of Atreus was under a curse and was visited by many calamities. Its story forms the subject of Aeschylus’s tragic trilogy, the Oresteia.

19. At an earlier time. For the quotation, cf. 1 Kings 14.10: God said, “I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam.”

20. From John Milton’s poem “At a Vacation Exercise” (1628).

21. Doing the same as us.

22. From Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Revolt of Islam (1818).

23. Hardy may have been recalling John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”: “that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest.”

24. It is not (dialect).

25. Children’s game played with pebbles or sheep’s bones.

26. Recalls a phrase in line 86 of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751).

27. Property owner subject to local tax.

28. Psalms 90.9.

29. To a moderate degree (dialect).

30. Stock of drugs.

31. Inconclusive or puzzling reply.

32. Probably Matthew Arnold.

33. Used in the Communion service. “Tables of Jewish law”: the Ten Commandments, which were often painted on boards fixed to the walls inside the church.

34. The first division of the “Decalogue,” containing the first four commandments (on duty to God); the remaining six commandments (on duty to man) were written on the second table.

35. Glasses full to the brim. “Fuddled”: intoxicated.

36. Foot. The devil traditionally has a cloven foot.

37. The word was coined by T. H. Huxley about 1870.

38. Sir Christopher Wren (1631–1723) designed many churches and other buildings in classical style. Augustus Pugin (1812–1852), architect and propagandist of the Gothic Revival, which displaced Renaissance styles in favor of imitation medievalism.

39. 2 Corinthians 7.2 (with slight omissions).

40. Judges 17.6 (“every man did that which was right in his own eyes”).

41. Covering or “cladding” a brick wall with thin slabs of stone.

42. Mourning dress.

43. Black silk used for mourning costume.

44. Temporary wooden fence surrounding a building under construction or repair.

45. Members of a congregation or denomination.

46. Stall.

47. Looking at, usually with an air of mockery.

48. Black cloth of good quality.

49. Nonconformist chapel.

50. The usual meaning of this dialect phrase is to be genteel, socially ambitious, and contemptuous of one’s inferiors. Here it seems to imply in addition “get out of hand, like to have one’s own way.”

51. Numbers 5.31 (slightly changed).

52. Roofed with dark tiles.

53. Confusion between long and short vowels or syllables in Latin or Greek verse.

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