...catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. — THOS. CARLYLE: Jean Paul Richter. 16. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. — TENNYSON : In Memoriam. 17. I am always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if...

...they cannot give it such expression in formal words as will make it plain to the unsympathetic ear: " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." The wealth of affection and the depth of tenderness in their warm hearts can never be recognized except...

...for the sake of final wholeness. In this respect, humor carries out the Tennysonian principle — " For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within." To this extent, at least, Talleyrand's half-truth, " that language is the art of concealing thought...

...rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.— Moore. For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within.— Teanyton. Yes, Ellen, when disguised I stray In life's more low but happier way, Tis under name which...

...— Robert Burnt POEMS OF L1FE—SORKOW A\D DEATH. Selections From "In Memonam." GRIEF UNSPEAKABLE. I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the...lies; The sad mechanic exercise. Like dull narcotics, Dumbing pain. In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er. Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But...

...that shine through a fountain? Or, the first may rhyme with the fourth, and the second with the third: I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the...nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. — Tennyson. The whole of "In Memoriam" is written in this form, and it is also found in Ben Jonson,...

...creature, whom I found so fair. I trust he lives in Thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved, I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro' four sweet years...

...ag have no experience of the joys of the years). But perhaps ' gaudia annorum ' mean only flowers. A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain (v.) : Cf. Donne, Triple Fool : — I thought if I could draw my pains Through rhyme's vexation I should...

...A lighter thing than vanity. Good words make friends ; bad words make enemies. SIR MATTHEW HALE. " For words like nature — half reveal And half conceal the soul within." " Thought is deeper than all speech ; Feeling deeper than all thought." Give not thy tongue too great...

...is our habit in an age of utterly chaotic education. We read, as the bereaved poet made rhymes — " For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; This sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." We, to whom steam and electricity have...