| Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 216 หน้า
...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... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 หน้า
...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... | |
| John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 หน้า
...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... | |
| Kelly Miller Smith - 2000 - 372 หน้า
..."words that weep and tears that speak. "Remember the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson in In Memoriam: I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. (7) The use of high-sounding words with which the congregation is not familiar accomplishes no good.... | |
| Ethan Mordden - 1989 - 324 หน้า
...stairs so quickly he virtually leaped into Lionel's lap. "Oooh," Bert gasped. "Like tot-tal-ly haunted!" But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850 Lionel and Bert refused to go back upstairs that night, so I... | |
| Alan Leo - 1978 - 328 หน้า
...harmonious impulsion. No matter how perfect it may be, something indefinable is lost in the expression. "For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." as Tennyson truly wrote of the expression of grief at the loss of a loved one. We realise the thoughts... | |
| Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 หน้า
...Victoria to offer Tennyson the laureateship. To Speak About Grief Language fails to express grief. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The "sorrow of language" writes Merleau-Ponty, is that words cannot express all we want to say. How... | |
| Harris B. Shumacker - 1992 - 508 หน้า
...feelings and thoughts, and far more difficult to convey those of others. Tennyson was right when he wrote: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. I am writing in a rather informal but hopefully objective manner. Many of those who have played an... | |
| Marilyn Kallet - 1993 - 276 หน้า
...the rocks as they do Who know how to ride this tumult safely And play its perils like a game. (22) But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. (5.5-8) Sarton's poem is no "mechanic exercise." She quickly abandons the meter and rhyme of "A Farewell"... | |
| Edwin A. Cranston - 1993 - 1332 หน้า
...reiteration, the animating principle of such poems as the Rubaiyat and Tennyson's In Memoriam, where we find "A use in measured language lies; / The sad mechanic exercise, / Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." The poems are in fairly uncomplicated language, except for no. 507, which situates its "mountain" in... | |
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