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

...criminal deeds might have found fit expression in the lines of a great poet of our own times: — " Action is momentary, — The motion of a muscle, this...or that. Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." With this proclivity of his imagination, Webster's power as a dramatist consists in confining the domain...

...after. It was into the mouth of such a character that a modern poet has well put the words, " Action 13 momentary, The motion of a muscle, this way or 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...

...criminal deeds might have found fit expression in the lines of a great poet of our own times : — " Action is momentary, — The motion of a muscle, this...or that. Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." With this proclivity of his imagination, Webster's power as a dramatist consists in confining the domain...

...Hazlitt, makes 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, obscure and infinite." Wordsworth's genius was perhaps more fitly employed in thus tracing out the springs of heroic passion,...

...energetic 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 5 Suffering is long, obscure and infinite! " Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled...

...lines quoted from it, as puj; 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 is l«ng, obscure and infinite ! " Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled spirit of the...

...energetic lines quoted from it, as put into the mouth of a person smit with remorse for some rash " Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way...that ; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled spirit of the drama, this performance was never...

...energetic 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 is long, obscure, and infinite ! ' Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled spirit of the drama, this performance was...

...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 j Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite.' In the conflict of his feelings, he is worn to a skeleton,...