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
| James Jones - 1993 - 104 pages
...else can ever enter into and share with us. The darkness of the suffering is Suffering and the Poets Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Borderers Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever... | |
| Roy Starrs - 1994 - 236 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. WORDSWORTH" I have gone to such lengths to establish the 'nihilist genealogy' of Naziism - and of fascism... | |
| David Bromwich - 2000 - 204 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. (1842, III.v.1539-44) The thought of the lines resonates deeply with Wordsworth's poetry of the late... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...muscle - this way or that 'tis done, and in the after vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed: ȇ 12776 'To a Butterfly, I've Watched you now' Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days... | |
| Thorslev - 1999 - 240 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 Borderers, HI, 1 539-44) Faust is already from the beginning of the drama disillusioned with the... | |
| Stephen Gill - 2003 - 324 pages
...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 permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity. (in v 60-5; 1797-9 text) Wordsworth read these lines to William Hazlitt... | |
| Russell Stannard - 2003 - 148 pages
...the Introduction, suffering is ultimately a mystery. William Wordsworth expressed it in the words: Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, and shares the nature of infinity. We can talk about suffering, argue about it, and try to rationalize about it. But in the end, we have... | |
| Roger Griffin, Matthew Feldman - 2004 - 538 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. WORDSWORTH1 I have gone to such lengths to establish the 'nihilist genealogy' of Naziism and of fascism... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 360 pages
...speech by Oswald from Wordsworth's The Borderers: 'Action is transitory — a step, a blow, | . . . Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, | And shares the nature of infinity' ( 1 539-44). 27. treasure in afield: W is almost certainly thinking of Christ's account of the kingdom... | |
| Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 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. (act 3) How superb is the match of sense and substance in the only line which has no concluding punctuation.... | |
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