 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
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 pages
...they give place to others that are worthier. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp, in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." * And if men — then mankind ; the " dead selves " are the inferior motives and dispositions which... | |
 | 1873 - 522 pages
...We have made a household word of the proverb that falls immortal from the lips of two great poets, that " men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." But it tells only half the truth. The feet rise on stepping-stones, it is true ; but the hands also... | |
 | Words, E. S. - 1873 - 184 pages
...strange bed-fellows. My thoughts are all a case of knives, wounding my heart. 76 GRAINS OF GOLD, OR Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things. Tennyson. Mark how there still has run, Enwoven from above, Through thy life's darkest woof The golden... | |
 | Day - 1874 - 384 pages
...HOUSE, BLENHEIM STREET, OXFORD STREET. BOOK: iv I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Inconstancy means raw : 'tis faith alone means ripe. VOL. m. ROUGH HEWN. CHAPTER I. " rFHERE is Ned... | |
 | W. E. Youngman - 1874 - 256 pages
...will that accepts it." CHAPTER VI. " I hold it truth, with one who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." — LONGFELLOW. cities have held strange relations to God I and man — Jerusalem and Rome : one called... | |
 | Jane E. Stebbins - 1874 - 516 pages
...how difficult it is to overcome the fearful habit of intemperance, it is not yet quite impossible " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Considering, however, the extreme risk that men run in the matter, it were safer and wiser not to bring... | |
 | Alexander Lamont - 1874 - 396 pages
...chilling blast of presumed defeat. There is a lovely truth in these lines of " In Memoriam " — " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." We shall only ever reach, I say, the full strength of our most perfect manhood here by a continued... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...MEMORIAM. AHH • OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I. \ 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 loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...clear harp in divers tones, 1 Saint Augustine 1 well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. In Memoriam. i. Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. Kid. vi. And topples round... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...main thought of " In Memoriam : " " 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 loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to... | |
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