...our doom was sealed. In them ' The generations were prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs, were ready, the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.' In their first false step we trace all our future woe, with loss of Eden. But there was a short and...

...existence he has scarcely heard of; and distant relations are surprised, on some casual introduction, to find each other an alter idem. Country cousins, who...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. revived. He ii a very honest gentleman in his principles, but cannot for hit blood talk fairly : he...

...heard of; and distant relations are surprised, on some casual introduction, to find each other an al,er idem. Country cousins, who meet after they are grown...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. revived. He is a very honest gentleman in his principles, but cannot for his blood talk fairly : he...

...with our fellow-beings. Tragedy consists in the terrible difficulty of this adjustment — ' the dire strife Of poor Humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.' Looking at individual lots, I seemed to see in each the same story, wrought out with more or less of...

...under the shadowy hilk The generations are prepared ; the pan?5The internal pangs, are ready; the dre*: strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." " Though," said the Priest in iiiswa "these be terms Which a divine philosophy rejects, We, whose established...

...say to such lines as these? Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs are ready, — the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will But with this sense of fate Wordsworth had a conviction that in man there is something intended to...

...Apollo, and Athena, or in the power of Moira and the Erinyes, — not merely because it represented ' the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny,' but much more because it awakened in the Athenian spectator emotions of wonder concerning human life,...

...the crowded cities of commerce, The generations were prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs were ready, the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny ? It is in his treatment of the common theme of human pain and suffering that a most distinctive characteristic...

...with our fellow-beings. Tragedy consists in the terrible difficulty of this adjustment — "The dire strife Of poor Humanity's afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." Looking at individual lots, I seemed to see in each the same story, wrought out with more or less of...

...Within the walls of cities ; or Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal pangs, are ready ; the dread...afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny ; for, although such quotations could be multiplied, isolated expressions, even when not dramatic,1...