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  • Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts" is a very long work and we are only able to produce a very few scenes from it.

    The Dynasts 1916

  • It is obvious that on an occasion like this, appropriate though the occasion might otherwise be, it is impossible to make anything more than the most passing reference to Hardy's "Dynasts" which appeared in 1904 and 1908 and which I take to be his signal performance, and one of the great imaginative works of the last hundred years.

    Thomas Hardy 1928

  • The Senate had murmured, but Cicero had passionately defended Crassus; [4] and as if to show publicly how entirely he had now devoted himself to the cause of the "Dynasts," he invited Crassus to dine with him the day before his departure for the

    Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Dynasts (by descent or marriage) who run against Obama, BAD.

    In Major Setback For Edwards, Hillary Wins Second Place, Networks Say 2009

  • Dynasts (by descent or marriage) who run against Obama, BAD.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | In Major Setback For Edwards, Hillary Wins Second Place, Networks Say 2009

  • One of the greatest passages in Thomas Hardy's epical poem, The Dynasts, contemplates the effect of Waterloo on the most innocent and unwilling of the battle's participants, the fowl and insects and creatures of the earth who are confused if not slain by the combat around them, below them, above them.

    GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 5. 2007

  • This is on a par with the section in The Dynasts where he Thomas Hardy considers the effect of troop movements at Waterloo on the local hedgehogs, moles and snails, or with his refusal to have the trees round his house lopped because it would hurt them, or with the tea parties he gave for the neighbourhood cats.

    News at Eleven: They were astonished. This is Rus Bowden 2006

  • This is on a par with the section in The Dynasts where he Thomas Hardy considers the effect of troop movements at Waterloo on the local hedgehogs, moles and snails, or with his refusal to have the trees round his house lopped because it would hurt them, or with the tea parties he gave for the neighbourhood cats.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • From Rome of the Caesars through the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, the Turkish Republic, the Dynasts, and - Yes, a story as marvelous as it is long.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Trade had grown listless throughout Caronne, after much of the kingdom's treasure bled away abroad during the Dynasts 'War.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

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