 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 [signed F.J.]. - Page 143by F. J - 1870Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 604 pages
...this way or that — 'T is done, and in the after vacancy We wonder at ourselves likt men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. Truth— and I feel it. OSWALD. What ! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmiogled joy And the light... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 740 pages
...this way or that — T is 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. MARMADUKB. Truth-and I feel it. OSWALD. What ! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmingled joy And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 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. ¿far. Truth — and I feel it. От. What ! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmingled joy And the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 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. Mar. Truth — and I feel it. Ото. What ! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmingled joy And the... | |
 | Benjamin Wrigglesworth Beatson - 1847 - 142 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. B. Truth— and I feel it. A. What ! if you had bid eternal farewell to unmingled joy and the light... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 416 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. Truth—and I feel it. MARMADUKE. x 2 OSWALD. What! if you had bid Eternal farewell to unmingled joy... | |
 | George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 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." WOEDSWOETH.— The Borderert. DR. REID'S father died in the summer of 1846, leaving his son some property.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 512 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." The mind, however, has a very natural repugnance to the sustained contemplation... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after vacancy AVe wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. Yet through the darkness (infinite though it seem, And irremovable) gracious openings lie, By which... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1863 - 666 pages
...Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — thu way or that — 'Tit done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like...thus touches on the contingencies of criminal action — What ! feel remorse, where, if a cat had sneezed, A leaf had fallen, the thing had never been Whose... | |
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