 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
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 300 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 enfold VI. ONE writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race'— And common is the... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Comparative literature - 1891 - 244 pages
...my pains Through rhyme's vexation I should them allay, Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce. One writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race.' That loss is common would not make My own less bitter (vi.) : The allusion is to Hamlet, act i. scene... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1891 - 390 pages
...food. Not that Eliphaz's words are untrue: they simply do not reach Job's case, do not find him, — " And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain." Job's new experience needs some new view of truth to exOr is there savor in the white of an egg ? My... | |
 | John Churton Collins - LITERARY CRITICISM - 1891 - 240 pages
...pains Through rhyme's vexation I should them allay, Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce. Ono writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That 'Loss is common to the race.' That loss is common would not make My own less bitter (vi.) : The allusion is to Hamlet, act i. scene... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 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. One writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 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. One writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is the... | |
 | Marshall Mather - English literature - 1892 - 190 pages
...letters of condolence come from far and near, all well meant, but bringing nothing of cheer or comfort. ' One writes, that "Other friends remain, That Loss is common to the race," — And common is the common place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. ' That loss is common would not make My own less... | |
 | Humanities - 1911 - 400 pages
...; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. 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." (S) "Beneath all fancied hopes and fears Ay me, the sorrow deepens down, Whose muffled motions blindly... | |
 | 1893 - 760 pages
...parallel to the following: — (a) Woe to thee, 0 land, when thy king is a child.— (Eccl.*. 16.) (i) And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain. — (/n Memoriam.) (c) "Stand on your guard, Sir!" Grenvile answered by slapping his own rapier home... | |
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