 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 - 1882 - 48 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." '" Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all,... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1981 - 308 pages
...triiber Gat Auf der dunklen Erde. GOETHE / 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. TENNYSON IN controlling his own "Spasmodic" impulse, Tennyson arrived with some reluctance but by deep... | |
 | Henry Arthur Jones - 1982 - 242 pages
...HENRY ARTHUR JONES and HENRY HERMAN 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... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...this volatility and seeming multiplicity of the self may offer the possibility of spiritual progress That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. (I) Foreshadowed here is the ambivalent attitude to change (which erodes values but may also consolidate... | |
 | Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 pages
...higher changes' (Ricks, Poems, p. 864): 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. The idea of rising in development is Goethean, but the metaphor of stepping-stones probably derives... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NAWM-2; OAEL-2; TrCP; TrGrPo; TrPWD; WGRP 18 I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp time in the darkness, Yet laughs not and sees not! (I. 68—71) LiTA; LiTM; MoAB; MoAmPo; Pr (Fr. I, 1. 1-4 EBW; HelP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-2; OBNC 19 the clock Beats out the little lives of men. (Fr.... | |
 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 pages
...ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966), 120, for a description of change as life from death, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 19. Joni Eareckson Tada, (Televised Billy Graham Crusade, Los Angeles, California, September 1984).... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...SI'OLIN (b. 1911), US ihealrical director, producer. Improvisation tor the Theater, ch. 1 (1963). 30 19O6-89). Irish dramatist, novelist. First Love (1970; lr. 1973). 14 A LORD TENNYSON (1809-92), English poet. In Memorram, pi. 1, si. 1. 31 We should be careful to get out... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1839-1894) British essayist, critic. Studies in the History of the Renaissance, "Conclusion" (1873). 5 Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. ALFRED TENNYSON, IST BARON TENNYSON, (1809-1892) British poet. "In Memoriam," pt. 1, st.1 (1850). 6... | |
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