 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 - Strana 137autor/autoři: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 922 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, Til wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold:...which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. Yt. One writes, that 'Other friends remain,' That ' Loss is common to the race ' — And common is... | |
 | Charles William Wood - 1894 - 408 str.
...broad outlines and deeper realities. POWYKE BRIDGE, WORCESTER. CHAPTER IV " 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. " ELLEN PRICE early began to learn the lessons of endurance which life teaches to most of us. " In... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1895 - 258 str.
...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:...common to the race'— And common is the commonplace, That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 str.
...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. Vt. One writes, that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is common to the race," — And common is... | |
 | Benjamin Jowett - 1895 - 650 str.
...lost their all in this world. The poet warns us against the commonplaces of consolation — . . . . ' that " Other friends remain," That " Loss is common...commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain." And yet another poet tells us — ' That consolation's sources deeper are Than sorrow's deepest ' ;... | |
 | Benjamin Jowett - 1896 - 394 str.
...have lost their all in this world. The poet warns us against the commonplaces of consolation — .... 'that "Other friends remain," That "Loss is common...race" — And common is the commonplace, And vacant chalf well meant for grain.' And yet another poet tells us — ' That consolation's sources deeper... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 str.
...language lies ; The sad mechanic exfircise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold...large grief which these Enfold Is given in outline and n8 more. Tennyson — " In Memoriam. " William Cullen Bryant wrote ' ' Thanatopsis ' ' at the age of... | |
 | Richard Meade Bache - 1897 - 698 str.
...benighted state of mind. He was withal a man full of pit)-, and he may well have murmured to himself, "and common is the commonplace, and vacant chaff well meant for grain." He said, however, nothing, but that he thanked the general, and did not allude further to the subject.... | |
 | John Oates - 1898 - 366 str.
...the kindly meant letters of condolence with the stereotyped phrases, " other friends remain," and " loss is common to the race." " And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain." He rejects the proffered consolation. If his love for Hallam were forgotten in the sorrow of others,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 str.
...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 ; But that large grief which these en fold Is given in outline and no more. VI One writes, that' other friends remain,' That' loss is... | |
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