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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. "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 209
1850
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Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...concerns his engagement in the writing of words which can never express the depth of his feelings: 'For words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within' (3-4). These words are at once precise and vague, the qualifier 'half suggesting not so much a whole...
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Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages

David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...disguise his thoughts. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, attributed, early i9th century (trans.) 2:132 I sometimes hold it half a sin / To put in words the...Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850, In Memoriam AHH, Canto 5 2:133 When each by turns was guide to each, /...
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After the Darkest Hour: How Suffering Begins the Journey to Wisdom

Kathleen A. Brehony - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 294 pages
...they're feeling, but it's not the only way. In fact, words may not even be enough. Tennyson wrote: / sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.2(> Suffering demands our imagination and creativity, as we struggle to express our own unique...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...virtue! Cam'st thou smiling from The world's great snare uncaught? — Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 8 But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. —Tennyson, In Memoriam, v (s)neubh: marry. Gk numphe: bride, nymph (see or), nymphae: the labia minora....
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Art Of Spelling: The Madnes And The Method

Savant Marilyn Vos - Business & Economics - 2001 - 212 pages
...says your life depends on your power to master words. —ARTHUR SCARGILL, British trades union leader For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, British poet .tWerything we do and say conveys a message about our personalities...
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Letteratura inglese, Volume 2

Laura M. Giusti - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 196 pages
...legate al mondo circostante e alla sfera personale e il sentimento di sfiducia verso la fede. ' (( l sometimes hold it half a sin / to put in words the grief l feel; for words, like Nature, half reveal / and half conceal the Soul within. )) A volte, considero...
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The World Book Dictionary, Volume 1

English language - 2003 - 1282 pages
...rhythmical: measured beats. 3 written in poetry, not in prose; metrical: measured lines of poetry. For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies (Tennyson). 4 deliberate and restrained; not hasty or careless: The angry old man spoke to the boys...
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The Power of Stillness: Learn Meditation in 30 Days

Tobin Blake - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2011 - 226 pages
...Force within you, and meditate on it for the remainder of the five minutes. the mantra a word on words For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson? a mantra is a word, sentence, or prayer that is repeated throughout a meditation,...
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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

Richard J. Dunn - Fiction - 2004 - 188 pages
...describes in section I I9, because David, too, finds 'great nature' speaking to and soothing him. 5 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold: But...
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Poetry: The Basics

Jeffrey Wainwright - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 248 pages
...(1809-92) long poem of grief, 'In Memoriam', use the form for an utterly different emotional state: I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. There is a very delicate modulation in the third and fourth lines here as that parenthesis, 'like Nature',...
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