 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pagina’s
...the darken'd eyes : With morning wakes the will, and cries, "Thou ehalt not be the fool of loss." V. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. Bnt, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like,... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pagina’s
...such is our habit in an age of utterly chaotic education. We read, as the bereaved poet made rhymes : For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. We, for whom steam and electricity have done almost everything except give us bigger brains and hearts,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pagina’s
...where the violets blow. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. SELECTIONS FROM "IN МЕЛЮЕ1АМ." OKIEF UNSPEAKABLE. ken leash 1 feel : For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet... | |
 | 1873 - 526 pagina’s
...Modesty in Science and Arf:f pp. 73, 7i. London : Smith. Elder and Co., 1872. t Lent. X. p. 212. " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within."* Bryd arall ceir ef yn bwrw alian, fei o losg-fynydd, reitheg ddysgleirwych Milton neu Jeremy Taylor.... | |
 | 1875 - 620 pagina’s
...reveal'd ; And loiter'd in the Master's field, And darken'd sanctities with song.' And yet again : • But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.' Here everything indicates naturalness, sincerity, truth ; the poetical expression springing, as it... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 408 pagina’s
...voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword." So, too, that great verbal artist, Tennyson, complains: "' I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within." De Quincey truly remarks that all our thoughts have not words corresponding to them in our yet imperfectly... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pagina’s
...Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Lady Clara Vere de Vert. 1n. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. In Memoriam, 5. IV. , Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones... | |
 | William Henry Hutchings - 1876 - 266 pagina’s
...do its best, to unveil the inner soul, and thus have experienced the truth of the poet's lament, " For words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." Each spirit of man is, in truth, an object of faith to his fellow-man; and each glimpse of the spirit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 872 pagina’s
...of the miscellaneous stores of the memory, and the mechanical process of arranging words in metre. But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Bacon however not only composed these two little works, but published them ' : a fact which, considering... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pagina’s
...exclamation of the heart's 2ecstatic delight ; and while it ministers to gladness it is balm to sorrow : " For the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies." We cannot easily imagine a grief which should be quite insensible to its influence. Only a poet could... | |
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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. 
