 | John Kitto - 1863 - 524 ページ
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 724 ページ
...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 ページ
...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.... | |
 | 1884 - 874 ページ
...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... | |
 | August Kurtzel - 1855 - 946 ページ
...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 398 ページ
...glorious jewel for ever shining there." — PRESIDENT EDWARDS. IN MEMORIAM. 321 IN MEMORIAM. ALFRED I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief...like nature, half reveal, And half conceal, the soul withiu. But for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 ページ
...Apocalypse into the lucid English of Paley or the Times newspaper, it is idle to ask for clearness, " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." But to those who have thought on these things and felt that we now see through a glass darkly, the enigmatic... | |
 | 1861 - 878 ページ
...Apocalypse into the lucid English of Paley or the Times newspaper it is idle to ask for clearness, " For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." But to those who have thought on these things and felt that we now see through a glass darkly, the enigmatic... | |
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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. 
