 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,...  Works: The princess. In memoriam - Page 137by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more. Soon after the poet alludes to the well-meant common-places by which it is so often sought to console... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. v. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 550 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." — P. 5. In another place, he says that his spirit can find relief in words only when the tides of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I '11 wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. V. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold...which these enfold Is given in outline, and no more." (The italics throughout, we may observe, will be ours, as indicating what vie consider "beauties.")... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 pages
...language lies ; The sad 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 which these infold Is given in outline and no more. VI. ONE writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...language 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 that large grief which these eufold Is given in outline and no more. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,1 That ' Loss is common... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold;...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. TI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race '—• And common... | |
 | Periodicals - 1851 - 724 pages
...language lie» : The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotio, numbing pain. " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large grief which these infold Is given in outline and no more." That is a sort of apology for writing his thought«, and bathing... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...language lies ; The sad 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 which these infold IB given in outline and no more." THIS simple Tribute to tho Memory of a beloved child, was... | |
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