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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. "
Recreations of a Recluse - Page 129
by Francis Jacox - 1870
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Why Do People Suffer?: A Lion Manual

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...
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Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima

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...
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Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s

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...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

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...
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Byronic Hero Types and Proto

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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

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...
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Why?: Why Evil? Why Suffering? Why Death?

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...
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Fascism: Post-war fascisms

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...
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2

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...
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William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook

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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