 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.  Self Culture - Page 6231895Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pages
...MEMORI AM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXITI. I. 1 BELD 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 in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time... | |
 | 1862 - 616 pages
...sorrows of the early Nonconformists. " I hold 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 in loss a gain to match? Or reach a hand through time... | |
 | 1862 - 568 pages
...graves Whole squadrons of fantastical chimeras." — Braeer. THOMAS H. CBOMEK. Who is — " He who sings That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," — referred to in Stanza I. of the first lay in Tennyson's la Afemoriam ? , K. " Only th.' horizon... | |
 | John McLeod Campbell - 1862 - 226 pages
...them, and even past loss is turned to gain : and so through the grace of God it becomes true — " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." " Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap;"1 yet — "if Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities,... | |
 | 1862 - 608 pages
...graves Whole squadrons of fantastical chimeras."— Brewer. THOMAS H. CROMEK. Who is — " He who sings That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher tilings," — referred to in Stanza I. of the first lay in Tennyson's In Memoriam ? , J£t " Only th*... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pages
...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 in losa a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time... | |
 | Agnes Wylde - 1865 - 378 pages
...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 HOUSE, I.UDGATE HIM,. 1865. EDINBURGH : T. CONSTABLE,... | |
 | 1866 - 628 pages
...to by Tennyson in the lines — • I bold It truth with him who sings To one clear harp In diver* tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' Celia. — // 32 pp. are not an 'observable enlargement' in our Christinas Number, observation can... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pages
...denied, if they keep the soul from reaching its truest height, its rest in the light of God. ' Thus " men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." Is not this destrnction of the lower that we may reach the higher, when the two are irreconcilably... | |
 | 1867 - 874 pages
...context, however, places the meaning of the poet beyond all doubt, for U:is is what he " holds true " — That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. |лт Illustrait for all Classes. MR. WYNYARD'S WARD. BY HOLME LEB, ACTHOR OF "SYLVAN HOLT'S DAUGHTER."... | |
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