 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1872 - 178 strani
...week, and he said likewise— That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies ; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight." TENNYSON. ^R. SMYTHE, I observe... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 strani
...week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half the truth is ever the blackest of lies ; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with...which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. And Willy had not been down to the farm for a week and a day ; And all things look'd half dead, tho'... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 strani
...that week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with...a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to flghU IX. And Willy had not been down to the farm for a week and a day ! And all things look'd half-dead,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 strani
...that week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with...which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. IX. And Willy had not been down to the farm for a week and a day; And all things look'd half-dead,... | |
 | Brudie Brudie - 1874 - 278 strani
...THIS DEED" 64 VI. " LIFE IS REAL ! LIFE IS EARNEST !".... 77 VII. "MY HEART HATH ITS LOVE" .87 VIII. " BUT A LIE WHICH IS PART A TRUTH IS A HARDER MATTER TO FIGHT" 93 ix. "A MOMENT'S THINKING is AN HOUR IN WORDS" 119 x. "AND LEARNS HER GONE, AND FAR FROM HOME" 127... | |
 | mrs. Francis G Faithfull - 1875 - 378 strani
...sure. It would be better to be sure. I wish I had let him tell me! I will next time.' CHAPTER VI. 1 A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with...which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.' • OING to-day ? Why, it's enough to take one's breath away.' ' There's a smack sails from Bristol... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 strani
...that week, and he said likewise, That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with...which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. IX. And Willy had not been down to the farm for a week and a day; And all things look'd half-dead,... | |
 | John Edmed - 1875 - 220 strani
...subject in Tennyson's poem, ' The Grandmother,' where he says— " ' A lie which is all a lie can bo met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.' " George Herbert also says— " ' Dare to be true ; nothing can need a lie ; The fault that needs it... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1875 - 564 strani
...more that was unmitigated falsehood. A sprinkling of truth, you know, leavens a mass of untruth :— " A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; Bat a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight." "My mother, though an Italian, professed... | |
 | Sarah Doudney - 1875 - 376 strani
...relates to Archie—is true." And with a bitter smile she repeated Tennyson's lines— " A lie that is all a lie, may be met and fought with outright, But a lie that is half the truth is a harder matter to fight." The firelight played upon the proud, pale face... | |
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A lie which is all a lie, may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. 
