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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. "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 209
1850
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The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. [Continued as ..., Volume 3

John Kitto - 1863 - 524 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...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...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...
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In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...below the darken 'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and eric?, IV. 1 SOMETIMES hold it half a siu To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like...within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measur'd language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numhing pain. In words, like...
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In Memoriam, Issue 1

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pages
...nameless trouble cross All night below the darken'd eyes ; With morning wakes the will, and cries, I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...— " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put iu words the grief 1 feel ; For words, like nature, hnlf reveal And half conceal the soul within. " But, for...sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing paia " In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold ; But that large...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 13

1851 - 724 pages
...unburden the grief-laden soul. Shelley says, and truly : — Hear Tennyson in illustration : — " I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in. words the grief 1 feel ; Fur words, like nature, hilf reveal And half conceal the .«oui w ithiii. " But. for the unquiet...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...nonsense ; thus leaving them in a " plague of darkness." Tennyson has said : — " I sometimes think it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel." Assuredly, many of our grave-stone rhymers commit a whole sin in writing much of their epitaph-poetry....
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 31

1884 - 874 pages
...grief round and round, using every sharp point as a facet to reflect some ray of light; he says indeed, "I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I foci" And he speaks, in some of those fine wordpaintings in rich frames, of "darkening the sanctity...
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The National Review, Volume 1

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...must have been more than usually operative here. The feeling itself has found its expression : '• I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel; For words, like Nature, hnlf reveal And half conceal the Soul within. " But, for the unquiet...
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Die Gegenwart: eine encyklopädische Darstellung der neuesten ..., Volume 11

August Kurtzel - 1855 - 946 pages
...ab» geben. Dodi gut! 2affen wir ЗеЬет feinen @out; bann aber beißt ев unter Slnberm аиф : I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief 1 feel; For words, like nature, half reveal. And half conceal the soul within. •) Hierauf fpielt...
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