Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hide it from earth...
...strives to hide the wound in vain...
...seeks with smiles to hide her pain...
...character of nearly every young man who, dying at an early age, gives promise of future excellence, there is an element of imperfection or of extravagance, - something to hide or to excuse. Mr. Eliot's character was wonderfully complete; his life was remarkable for its consistency and harmony. Remembering now what that life was, - that its course was straight, that it was not affected by caprice or by sin, - we feel how out of place any attempt to describe it here or to deepen its influence would be. We can only pay it the simple tribute of our affection...
Seemed bent to hide what it could not conceal...