 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
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 pages
...judgment of your fellow-men. " I hold it truth, with Mm who sings To one clear harp, in divers tunes, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In Mtmoriam. "The height by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they,... | |
 | Arthur Evans Moule - 1880 - 106 pages
...sorrows.) 14. If you bear suffering upon suffering, you will soon rise step by step over other men. "... Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." 15. If you give out publicly, you will receive it back secretly. (A strange contrast this to our Lord's... | |
 | Margaret Field - 1880 - 390 pages
...for thee." CHAPTER XXVI. FRIENDS ! " 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 nobler things." TENNYSON, In Memoriam. CECIL CARRE carne to the Manor, as she had promised, early in... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...soul with clay. Ibid. Canto vii. 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. In Memoriam. \. Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. And topples round the dreary... | |
 | Occasional thoughts - 1881 - 162 pages
...patience, courage, and victory over self. " 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." TENNYSON. When one has been indulging faithless fears and allowing remorse to fill the heart, instead... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 pages
...in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. t. 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... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...EDMTND WALLER. FROM "7,v MEMORIAL." i. I HELD it truth, with him wlio sings To one clear harp in divers o@; 4(; 4 ; 4 But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match? Or roach a hand thro' time to... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1881 - 326 pages
...is remembering happier things." " I hold, in 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." " I falter where I firmly trod, And, falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs... | |
 | 1881 - 790 pages
...therefore, is the lessons of the past and the hopes of the future. It is by well considering these — That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 2. We ought to consider. I need not say how great a thing it is to be endowed with the faculty of consideration.... | |
 | 1881 - 1180 pages
...writer. So long as "In Memoriam" is read people will ask, Who " sings to one' clear harp in divers tones, that men may rise on steppingstones of their dead selves to higher tilings"? What is the meaning of "Before the crimsoncircled star had fallen into her father's grave"?... | |
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