 | William Charles Macready - 1875 - 538 páginas
...lines not then published, which have since appeared in print, that impressed themselves on my memory : "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 betrayed." * I inquired of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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 Borderers. Act iii. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a... | |
 | William Charles Macready - 1875 - 508 páginas
...Mrs. Talfourd next but one — Talfourd within two. I talked much with my two illustrious neighbours. Wordsworth seemed pleased when I pointed out the passage in ' Ion,' of a " devious fancy," &c., as having been suggested by the lines he had once quoted to me from a MS. tragedy of his ; he... | |
 | William Charles Macready - 1875 - 780 páginas
...Mrs. Talfourd next but one — Talfourd within two. I talked much with my two illustrious neighbours. Wordsworth seemed pleased when I pointed out the passage in ' Ion,' of a " devious fancy," &c., as having been suggested by the lines he had once quoted to me from a MS. tragedy of his; he smiled... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...min' ? Should anld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne ? BURNS, Auld Lang Syne. Action. — ACTION is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that. WORDSWORTH, The Borderen. — Suit the ACTION to the word, the word to the action, with thia special... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1879 - 238 páginas
...admiration, chiefly Because they carry in themselves an earnest That we can suffer greatly. M. Very true. 0. 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 betrayed : Suffering is permanent,... | |
 | 1881 - 430 páginas
...as something iiiiiuite unfathomable. His deepest convictions on this are expressed in these lines: Action Is transitory— a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle— this way or that — • 'Tis done ; and In the alter vacancy of thought We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed; Suffering... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 páginas
...Strain a power may live, Beloved Wife ! such solace to impart As it hath yielded to thy tender heart. " 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 betrayed : Suffering is permanent,... | |
 | 1881 - 426 páginas
...something ipfiTi. ite unfathomable. His deepest convictions on this are expressed in these lines: Action la transitory— a step, a blow, . . .','— The motion of a muscle— this way or that — 'Tls done ; and In the after Tacancy of thought We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed ; Suffering... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 páginas
...great act, and not a series of acts, issuing from a state, like the stream of water from its well. " Action is transitory — a step — a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that ; "Pis done — and in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. Suffering" (obe<Uence,... | |
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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 betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. 
