 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,...  Record of Christian Work - Page 337edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 (1st baron.) - 1851 - 234 pages
...brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 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. VI. ONE writes, that ' Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 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." The deeper passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it, for... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 506 pages
...brain, A use in measur'd language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. XIX. The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more." The deeper passion of grief finds no such utterance, we know. No man can both feel and speak it. for... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 240 pages
...brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest...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 the... | |
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