 | 1850 - 640 pages
...as we now proceed to give. Our first quotation explains and vindicates the conception of the poem : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...statement, that he writes not to utter 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...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that larga grief... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...statement, that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; Butthat I urge grief... | |
 | 1850 - 550 pages
...statement that he writes not to utter his grief, but to divert the mind from the sense of pain.. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the 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...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...below the 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...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the mind within. " But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A...mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief... | |
 | 1913 - 586 pages
...And how the breast was soothed, and how the head, And all his hourly varied anodynes, remind one of But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...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... | |
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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,... 
