...trivial beginning." What does he say to such lines as these? Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...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...

...tragic Muse Shall find apt subjects for her highest art. Amid the groves, under the shadowy hills, The generations are prepared ; the pangs, The internal...rejects, We, whose established and unfailing trust 560 Is in controlling Providence, admit That, through all stations, human life abounds With mysteries;...

...readyj^thj:_drcad 'strife ffipoor humanity s afflicted will Struggling in vain with ruthless destiny. 'j 'Though/ said the Priest in answer, 'these be terms...rejects, We, whose established and unfailing trust 560 Is in controlling Providence, admit That, through all stations, human life abounds With mysteries;...

...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...

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

...bending flower, the tear collects in the glistening eye. " Beneath the hills, along the flowery vales, The generations are prepared; the pangs, The internal...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...

...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...

...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...