the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

Poems Of The Past And The Present and Time's Laughing Stocks, both published while Hardy was at work on The Dynasts, draw heavily on poems written before 1900.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Hardy was not Hardy very often.

Alf sed he heard that you and Hardy was a runing together all the time and he though he wod gust quit having any thing mor to doo with you for he thought it was no more yuse.

The same day as the frigates arrived, Mutine was sent to Britain with despatches under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Bladen Capel, who had replaced Hardy after the latter's promotion to captain of Vanguard.

One poet Thomas greatly admired, and who is regarded as an influence, was Thomas Hardy.

Originally titled The Girls Upstairs, the musical was originally to be produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward in late 1967, but the plans ultimately fell through, and Stuart Ostrow became the producer, with Joseph Hardy to direct.

Disco was an influence on house music, which was also influenced by mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers like Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M and others who produced longer, more repetitive and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

The original draw forces of examples from the Mary Rose are estimated by Hardy at at a draw length ; the full range of draw weights was between.

Strickland and Hardy in 2005 took this argument further, suggesting that the shortbow was a myth and all early English bows were a form of longbow.

" Among stars the young Bradbury was thrilled to encounter were Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, and Ronald Colman.

" Cryptic was formed as a corporation in California by Jay Clem ( born 1947 ), Homer Flynn ( born April 1945 ), Hardy W. Fox ( born 1945 ), and John Kennedy in 1976, all of whom denied having been band members.

Recently, it was announced that Tom Hardy is planned to star as Clark in a film version of Without Remorse to be based in the new Jack Ryan reboot universe, with Kevin Costner starring in both films.

Sports anchor Andy Hardy handled the play-by-play, and for one game in 1978, his broadcast partner was his friend, Florida State alumni and movie actor Burt Reynolds.

He was a friend of Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy – who was also made into a character in the film – sued the studio for displaying " vicious, untrue and false attacks " against him in the film.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

John Hardy from the Legal institute of England stated " For the title to be valid, we must incorporate the company or association for the living " This statement has been used thoroughly

* Some extremely effective ( and expensive ) wipes were used in the otherwise very low-budget Laurel and Hardy short film Thicker than Water.

The English author Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes ' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England.

Director McCarey reportedly came up with the title for the film, having previously used it for an earlier directorial effort with Laurel and Hardy.

Once Hardy created it, all serial writers used the cliff-hanger even though Anthony Trollope felt that the use of suspense violated " all proper confidence between the author and his reader.

Andy Hardy ( Mickey Rooney ) is putting a $ 12 down payment on a used car.

However, aside from formulating the Hardy – Weinberg principle in population genetics, his famous work on integer partitions with his collaborator Ramanujan, known as the Hardy – Ramanujan asymptotic formula, has been widely applied in physics to find quantum partition functions of atomic nuclei ( first used by Niels Bohr ) and to derive thermodynamic functions of non-interacting Bose-Einstein systems.

Moreover, Hardy deliberately pointed out in his Apology that mathematicians generally do not " glory in the uselessness of their work ," but rather – because science can be used for evil as well as good ends – " mathematicians may be justified in rejoicing that there is one science at any rate, and that their own, whose very remoteness from ordinary human activities should keep it gentle and clean.

Portions of the city used to be zoned to Turner Elementary School until the attendance zoned changed for the 2006 – 2007 school year, rezoning the portion to Hardy Elementary School.

* Stan Laurel often used malapropisms in the Laurel and Hardy films:

There is a story ( related in the Miscellany ) that at a conference Littlewood met a German mathematician who said he was most interested to discover that Littlewood really existed, as he had always assumed that Littlewood was a name used by Hardy for lesser work which he did not want to put out under his own name ; Littlewood apparently roared with laughter.

Lung pioneer James Hardy attempted a human heart transplant in 1964, but when a premature failure of the recipient's heart caught Hardy with no human donor, he used a chimpanzee heart, which failed very quickly.

Having written an article in the 1940s for amateur photographers suggesting an expensive camera was unnecessary for quality photography, Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy used a Brownie camera to stage a carefully posed snapshot of two young women sitting on railings above a breezy Blackpool promenade.

For a time during its Friar's Inn residency the NORK used a two cornet format ; Paul Mares leader and first cornet ; Emmett Hardy second.

The 1930 Laurel and Hardy movie Brats used forced perspective to depict Stan and Ollie simultaneously as adults and as their own sons.

Greenheart was used to make the acclaimed Hardy's Greenheart fly fishing rods, by Hardy Brothers of Alnwick.

" James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his memoirs written in 1812 and published in 1819.

Laurel and Hardy used 3, 000 pies in only one day of shooting, so more are seen flying through the air.

In the first edition, the word " Wessex " is used only once, in chapter 50 ; Hardy extended the reference for the 1895 edition.

The space used by the New York Academy of Sciences on the 40th floor, designed by H < sup > 3 </ sup > Hardy Collaboration Architecture, works with the parallelogram shape of the building.

The Hardy Boys have been featured in computer games and five television shows and used to promote merchandise such as lunchboxes and jeans.

The Hardy Boyz used a cruiserweight, fast-paced high flying style in their matches, often leaping from great heights to do damage to their opponents ( and themselves in the process ).