 | Osbert Burdett - 1926 - 184 páginas
...gone before we are aware of all that it means. It is nearly a perfect example of Wordsworth's dictum: 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. The story shows... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1927 - 168 páginas
...the character and the crises of the drama in the theatre of the soul. Hamlet is the first modern man. 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,... | |
 | Catherine Macdonald Maclean - 1927 - 156 páginas
...Borderers, for example, where he contrasts the transitoriness of action with the permanence of suffering: 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,... | |
 | Jacomina Korteling - 1928 - 196 páginas
...poem, Wordsworth expresses in epitome the essence of the spiritual truth which is revealed in it : "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,... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1898 - 284 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 01 that — 'Tis done ; and, in the after vacancy, We wonder at ourselves like men betray'd ; Suffering... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 páginas
...suffering. Wordsworth speaks for every other Romantic poet in a speech from his early drama, 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,... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 páginas
...epigraph the powerful lines from The Borderers, finally published only the year before this late note: 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,... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 472 páginas
...attempt at change such as the French example had first promised - all these go into his famous lines: 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,... | |
 | Jonathan Bennett, Jonathan Francis Bennett - 1988 - 262 páginas
...decisive and is not dented by the efforts of Beardsley or Thalberg or Thomson. As Wordsworth said: 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. . . . So I have to draw the sting of the... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 páginas
...may be epitomized by the lines from The Borderers that after 1837 formed the motto to The White Doe: "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... | |
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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. 
