 | 1850 - 602 pages
...his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain. " 1 sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies : The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...quotation explains and vindicates the conception of the poem : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. B,ut, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | John Kitto - 1863 - 524 pages
...shall see Him as He is, but then we shall be like Him. Now we must see Him " through a glass darkly." " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." We could not bear to see him face to face. He must veil his Godhead or we should die. To favoured men... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...With morning wakes the will, and cries, I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half...dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these enfold... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...darken 'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and eric?, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a siu To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; • The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...will, and cries, " Thou shall not be the fool of loss." T. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain.. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | 1913 - 586 pages
...all his hourly varied anodynes, remind one of But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. ' In Memoriam,' v. "!F NOT THE ROSK" (11 S. vii. 349). " Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle,"... | |
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,... 
