 | Consolation - 1858 - 398 pages
...glorious jewel for ever shining there." — PRESIDENT EDWARDS. IN MEMORIAM. 321 IN MEMORIAM. ALFRED I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...like nature, half reveal, And half conceal, the soul withiu. But for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 730 pages
...they named thee, of a surety — Irene ! I dare not linger to think. I cannot say with the poet : ' BUT, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.' For woes with me, being dwelt on, acquire keenness and polish to pierce yet deeper, and more searchingly... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 506 pages
...shall make no comments on our extracts. It were an injustice to the poet to think they needed any. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 448 pages
...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 : la fact which, considering... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 854 pages
...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, liut published them1: a fact which, considering... | |
 | Ireland - 1861 - 878 pages
...Apocalypse into the lucid English of Paley or the Times newspaper it is idle to ask for clearness, " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." But to those who have thought on these things and felt that we now see through a glass darkly, the enigmatic... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1863 - 526 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1864 - 444 pages
...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. works, but published them : l a fact which, considering how little he had cared to publish during the... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 568 pages
...indicative of bring, in the active voice. 6. Parse the italicized words in the sentence " I some times hold it half a sin to put in words the grief I fed. 1. Write an adjective derived from each of the words glory, haste, autumn, honor, hate. 8. What... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1866 - 414 pages
...darkened eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, * Thou shall not be the fool of loss ! " v. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the... | |
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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. 
