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  • Glen (Bill Camp), an underachieving American academic at the writers 'retreat with a tender crush on Beth, intuits the ironic, generational aspect of all this by telling her all about Thomas Hardy's lesser-known 1897 novel The Well-Beloved, featuring an artist who, at successive stages in his life, falls in love with a woman, and then with her daughter, and then with the granddaughter.

    Tamara Drewe 2010

  • Well-Beloved, where the man is in love with three women, and

    The Captive 2003

  • Blessed is that teacher who shall arise to instruct the children, and to guide the people into the pathways of God, the Bestower, the Well-Beloved.

    A Compilation on Bahá’í Education Universal House of Justice

  • Do you remember that novel of Hardy's, The Well-Beloved?

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • On 6th September 1764, the crypt of the new St. Genevieve being completed, the Well-Beloved laid the first stone of the church.

    The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

  • But to the reign of Louis the Well-Beloved was reserved the crowning infamy: in 1741 the glorious old stained-glass windows, rivalling those of Chartres in richness, were destroyed by Levreil and replaced by grisaille with yellow fleur-de-lys ornamentation.

    The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

  • Well-Beloved to send down His Grace on the Catholic Church; to strengthen and save the living; to give rest and peace to the dead; and especially to remember her dear brother Anthony, and Hubert whom she loved; and

    By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • His novels formed an unbroken series from the _Desperate Remedies_ of 1871 to _The Well-Beloved_ of 1897.

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • He then amended this Latin name with its Greek equivalent, Erasmus, which means literally the Well-Beloved.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Tammas, the Techy Titan, with his "French Revolution," to Bobbie Burns and Robert Louis, the Well-Beloved, we have a people who have been saying things and doing things since John Knox made pastoral calls on

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

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