 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pages
...not flattering to one's self-complacency. We may even echo the sentiment of Tennyson and sav : — " I hold it truth with him who sings, To one clear harp...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." And yet it is not pleasant to gaze upon the shrunken corpse of a past self, let the new life be ever... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOKIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXin. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years, . And find... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1863 - 448 pages
...one who went to sleep first, and slept the soundest. CHAPTER IV. " I hold it true with him who sings, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In Memoriam. I DON'T know how we all tumbled into our usual every-day routine the next morning, but... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...Laureate's " In Memoriam." In this stanza, two rhyming verses come between other two ; eg : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stonea Of their dead selves to higher things. •' But who shall so forecast the years And... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 pages
...suggestions of other men. In * So does Tennyson. In " In Memoriam," the reference — " I held it true, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That we may rise on stepping-stones Of our dead selves to higher things" — is to Longfellow, and his poem... | |
 | Edward Dutton Cook - 1865 - 358 pages
...8vo, cloth, price 12s. HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION: a Problem in a Novel. By AGNES WYLDE. One volume. ' I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping stones " Of their dead selves to higher things.' Second Edition. A MEEE STORY. By the Author of 'Twice Lost/ 3 vols., post 8vo, 24s. ' A clever story,... | |
 | Agnes Wylde - 1865 - 378 pages
... HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION. A PROBLEM IN A NOVEL. AGNES WYLDE. ' 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND MARSTON, MII.TON... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1865 - 374 pages
...CHAPTEE XVI. THE DAWN OF LIGHT. " I hold it truth, with one who sings To one clear harp in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." TENNYSON. THE next morning Charlie awoke in no enviable frame of mind. He had a dull headache and a... | |
 | George Barton Ide - 1866 - 354 pages
...that imparts dignity to the citizen, in all that insures repose and prosperity to the state. " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." So simple and yet so thorough is the method... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...they tail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. • I. I HKl.n it trtitl), with him wlio sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Hut who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
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I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
