 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 páginas
...by Hazlitt, and describes, in apt language, the remorse which follows a hastily-committed crime : ' 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 Archer - 1890 - 244 páginas
...perhaps showed less tact than might have been desired in quoting the lines from his own 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." Macready, however,... | |
 | William Archer - 1890 - 244 páginas
...— " 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." Macready, however, does not seem to have noticed the allusion. " I felt tranquilly happy," he writes.... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 páginas
...by Hazlitt, and describes, in apt language, the remorse which follows a hastily-committed crime : ' Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — "Pis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1893 - 248 páginas
...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 permanent,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
