 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - English essays - 1908 - 506 pages
...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 ; 5 Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." In the conflict of his feelings he is worn to a skeleton,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 524 pages
...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 never... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 552 pages
...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 ; Su|fering is long, obscure, and infinite ! " Perhaps for want of light and shade, and the unshackled... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1922 - 510 pages
...lines quoted from it,1 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 ! ' And finally (in On the Character of the Country People) : I remembe'r our laughing a good deal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 804 pages
...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...or that: Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." The second characteristic of his genins is connected with the first. With his insight of individual... | |
 | John L. Idol, Buford Jones - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 568 pages
...supposed that his whole theory of Romantic Art was based on these tremendous lines of Wordsworth: — "Action is momentary, — The motion of a muscle,...or that: Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." The second characteristic of his genius is connected with the first. With his insight of individual... | |
 | Rictor Norton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 788 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 746 pages
...struggler against the horrors of a living grave. We feel the truth of the poet's exclamation — •* Action is momentary — The motion of a muscle this...or that ; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite. " But the " long, obscure, and infinite," cannot be exhibited on the stage. It is surprising, therefore,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1878 - 496 pages
...Antigone. He might have summed up his whole theory of Romantic Art in these lines of Wordsworth : — " Action is momentary — The motion of a muscle, this...that : Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite." This is illustrated in such tales as " The Minister's Black Veil," "The Prophetic Pictures," "The Birth-mark,"... | |
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Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way or that; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite! 
