| William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 páginas
...in the glistening eye. " Beneath the hills, along the flowery vales, The generations are prepared; the pangs, The internal pangs are ready ; the dread...afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." As the lark ascends from its low bed on fluttering wing, and salutes the morning skies; so Mr. Wordsworth's... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1913 - 272 páginas
...them 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... | |
| Samuel Claggett Chew - 1915 - 204 páginas
...into a truly dramatic form. A barrier opposes the desires of the individual soul. Some poets emphasize "the dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny." This, the easiest solution of the problem, relieves humanity of responsibility by proclaiming the omnipotence... | |
| 1918 - 492 páginas
...might actuate a genius yet in the egg, but destined to be potent in the issues of erratic passion. The dread strife Of poor humanity's afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. — WORDSWORTH. I say genius in the egg, for a young crocodile could not crawl forth from the shell,... | |
| Henry Burrowes Lathrop - 1919 - 324 páginas
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1928 - 374 páginas
...in the glistening eye. ' Beneath the hills, along the flowery vales, The generations are prepared j the pangs, The internal pangs are ready ; the dread...afflicted will, Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny.' As the lark ascends from its low bed on fluttering wing, and salutes the morning skies ; so Mr. Wordsworth's... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1928 - 406 páginas
...them 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... | |
| Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 2000 - 596 páginas
...suhjects for her highest art. 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. ffrom Book VI., ll. 539-557l COLERIDGE FROM a letter to John Thelwall 17 Decemher 1796 . . . You SAY... | |
| 1885 - 1098 páginas
...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... | |
| Stuart M. Sperry - 1994 - 376 páginas
...expectations and the laws of a controlling providence that Wordsworth had so notably explored — the "strife / Of poor humanity's afflicted will / Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny" (vi. 555-57). For Keats had come to see that this was the essence of the "Mystery" of life as well... | |
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