 | 1882 - 1434 páginas
...are very far from being the surest marks of it. s. GEORGE WASHINGTON — Social Maxims. friendship. Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that. (. WORDSWORTH— The Bordenrs. Act III All may do what has by man been done, u. YOUNG — Night Thoughts.... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 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 ; 'Tis done — and in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. Suffering ' (obedience,... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 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 Bordiren. Act [a. Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim... | |
 | J D. M - 1883 - 220 páginas
...offer : hence his failure and the success of the Nazarene. Vidsti Galilm .' " — J. SHORTHOUSE. " Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle— this way or that — "Tis done ; and in the after vacancy of thought We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 páginas
...hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. — Burke. Action. Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that. — Wordsworth. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance,... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 páginas
...great act, an/ tut a series of acts, issuing from a state, like tin stream >f water from its well. " 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" (obedience,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 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,... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 páginas
...by Hazlitt, and describes, in apt language, the remorse which follows a hastily-committed crime : ' 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,... | |
 | William Archer - 1890 - 244 páginas
...perhaps showed less tact than might have been desired in quoting the lines from his own Borderers — " 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." Macready, however,... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 páginas
...by Hazlitt, and describes, in apt language, the remorse which follows a hastily-committed crime : ' 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 is permanent,... | |
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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. 
