 | 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 of a muscle this way or that — 'Tis done ; and, in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betray'd ; Suffering is... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 páginas
...Another passage afterwards used in the Dedication of the White Doe of Rylstone is as follows : — ' ' 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 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 of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done ; and in the after vacancy of thought We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed. Suffering... | |
 | 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 of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done ; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed." " Actions are our... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1909 - 250 páginas
...years of painful thought still lay heavy on his spirit that he wrote these lines in the 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 : Suffering is permanent,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 páginas
...spectacle of patient suffering, though not so striking, is morally more 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... | |
 | John Brown - 1907 - 402 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,... | |
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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. 
