...ever after. It was into the mouth of such a character that a modern poet has well put the words, " ~ Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle, this way or that ; Suffering is long, obscure, and infmite." In the conflict of his feelings, he is worn to a skeleton, wasted to a shadow. But he endures...

...prose essays, make us share in his earnest curiosity. " Action is momentary — A word, a blow — the motion of a muscle this way or that ; Suffering is long, drear, and infinite." Wordsworth's genius is perhaps more fitly employed in thus tracing out the springs...

...ever after. It was into the mouth of such a character that a modern poet has well put the words, - Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle, this...that ; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." In the conflict of his feelings he is worn to a skeleton, wasted to a shadow. But he endures this living...

...ever after. It was into the mouth of such a character that n modern poet has well put the words, - Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle, this...that ; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." In the conflict of his feelings he is worn to a skeleton, wasted to a shadow. But he endures this living...

...lines quoted from it, as put into the mouth of a person smit with remorse for some rash crime : -" Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way or that ; Suffering a long, obscure, and infinite !" Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled spirit of...

...with the living representative of William Lisle Bowles, the sonneteer î L. TBAGBDY BY WORDSWORTH.— Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way...or that ; Suffering is long, obscure and infinite. Hazlitt says these lines occur in an unpublished tragedy of Wordsworth, written when he was young....

...Wordsworth's prose essays, make us share in his earnest curiosity. " Action is momentary— A word, a blow — the motion of a muscle this way or that ; Suffering is long, drear, and infinite." Wordsworth's genius is perhaps more fitly employed in thus tracing out the springs...

...amiability of character, concealed from us what could not fail to have been a deeply -rooted grief. Action is momentary — the motion of a muscle this way or that ; but suffering is long, obscure, and infinite. Still there are many sweet alleviations of human agony...

...is how to get out of it. What do you advise ?" "I am utterly careless about it, Ehimeson; do as yon think best," replied Elliot, in a tone of deep despondency....and thundering and crashing down the steep, awakened Rhimeson from his contemplation of Elliot's grief; and, springing again to the brink of the almost...

...supposed that his whole theory of Romantic Art was based on these tremendous lines of Wordsworth : — " Action is momentary, — The motion of a muscle, this...-that : Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." The second characteristic of his genius is connected with the first. "With his insight of individual...