 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.  Recreations of a Recluse - Page 129by Francis Jacox - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...all? »*. There's a Providence for them who walk In helplessness, when innocence is with them. *** Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, 'And shares the nature of infinity. *** O wretched Human-kind ! Until the mystery Of all this world is solved, well may we envy •The... | |
 | Osbert Burdett - 1926 - 184 pages
...character. Moreover, the other side of the author's imagination exemplifies Wordsworth's succeeding couplet: Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. This brooding conviction has inspired many of Mr. Harris's tales. More qualified praise must be given... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1927 - 168 pages
...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. VI DICTION AND SPECTACLE WITH three of Aristotle's six elements of Tragedy we have dealt — its lyricism,... | |
 | Catherine Macdonald Maclean - 1927 - 156 pages
...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. We are interested in the healing he prescribes. It is that of the psalmist. And if there be whom broken... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 pages
...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. A great crisis in human affairs usually closes the education of those who bear a part in it. They make... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 pages
...in a rage; Each outcry of the hunted hare, A fibre from the brain does tear." Wordsworth saw that: "Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of Infinity." Other poets speak in a similar vein. Mrs. Browning (Aurora Leigh) said: "There's not a flower in spring... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...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. The sufferings of Wordsworth's solitaries, and of the poet himself in the crisis of mind recorded by... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1922 - 592 pages
...this way or that: —'Tis done ; and in the after solitude We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. 1 On the side of Poetry, the revolt of Vico has perhaps a yet deeper significance. What enraged him,... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...University Press, 1978), John Beer suggestively compares these lines to Oswald's speech in The Borderers: "Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, / And shares the nature of infinity." The conjunction underlines the progress made in the Ode: it is suffering, as much as joy, that links... | |
 | Michael Hays - 1992 - 181 pages
...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, (lines 1539-44) Trapped in the sublime recesses of interiority, the richness of character is formed... | |
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