| Coventry Patmore - 1893 - 248 páginas
...spectacle of patient suffering, though not so striking, is more morally impressive ; for we know that " Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion...muscle this way or that — 'Tis done ; and, in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betray'd ; Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark,... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1893 - 248 páginas
...suffering, though not so striking, is more morally impressive ; for we know that '' Action is transitory—a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle this way or that— 'Tis done ; and, in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betray'd ; Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1893 - 422 páginas
...step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done ; and in the after- vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity. Yet through that darkness (infinite though it seem And irremoveable) gracious... | |
| William Marvel Nevin - 1895 - 526 páginas
...as something infinite, unfathomable. His deepest convictions on this are expressed in these lines : "Action is transitory " — a step, a blow, The motion...muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done ; and in the after vacancy of thought We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. Suffering is permanent, obscure... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1896 - 312 páginas
...tender heart. RYDAL MOUNT, WESTMORELAND, April 20, 1815. " Action is transitory — a step, a blow, 65 The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis...betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, 1 1837. And has the nature of infinity. 70 Yet through that darkness (infinite though it seem And irremovable)... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1896 - 424 páginas
...That we can suffer greatly. MARMADUKE Very true. OSWALD Action is transitory—a step, a blow, 405 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves...obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. 410 MARMADUKE Truth—and I feel it. OSWALD What! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmingled joy... | |
| 1896 - 1224 páginas
...are very far from being the surest marks of it. b. GEORGE WASHINGTON — Social Maxims. Friendship. saw two clouds at c. WORDSWORTH — The Borderers. Act III. And all may do what has by man been done. d. YOUNG— Night... | |
| Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 páginas
...that glory Which treads o'er the hearts of the free." T. MOORE. Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel " Action is transitory — a step, a blow — The motion...after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed." " Actions are our epochs." BYRON. Manfred (Manfred), Act II., Sc. I. '' Adam, the goodliest man of... | |
| Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 512 páginas
...an " entirely different " standpoint. As he says in the prefatory lines borrowed from The Borderers, "Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — "Tisdone"; or, as he repeats in his compendiously conscientious way, — " Everything that is attempted... | |
| 1903 - 1186 páginas
...thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41. Action is transitory, — a step, a blow ; The motion of a muscle, this way or that. The Borderen. Act Hi. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim... | |
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