 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 - Pagina 1di Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 210 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Henry Allon - 1868 - 670 pagine
...dozen centuries, will ever perish out of present use, or become a mere historical monument. ' I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' Old dispensations arc perpetually fulfilled in new ones. The life of the Church is like the life of... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pagine
...whole — for the offect would be mr notor,ous — but part by part, poem by poem. How nobly it begins "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." Here, too, is to be found the poets thought... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1868 - 454 pagine
...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. "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. Who's come Back ? 203 CHAPTER I.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1868 - 388 pagine
...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. '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. Who's come Back? 203 CHAPTER I. HOW... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1868 - 308 pagine
...sorrow profits much." — Eumen., 491- 94. But with this recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," there is also a consciousness, dim and dark, as of one groping after a truth which he feels rather... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pagine
...they fail in truth. And in thy w'sdom make me wise. 1849. IS MEHOKIAM. A, HH OBIIT MDCCCXXXTH. I. I it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death,... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pagine
...treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Skelley. I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. PIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Figures of speech are intentional deviations from the ordinary form,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pagine
...one, nevertheless. Of such as Heloi'sc, as well as any others, the poet's philosophy is correct : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stopping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " Rousseau produced many works upon a variety... | |
 | 1869 - 880 pagine
...to recover from their wounds, and fight again, and win at last — if they would ! CHAPTER X. 14 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on slepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNVSOK. Polycarpe Poquet found it more difficult... | |
 | Author of Ellen Clinton, Mrs. - Woodward - 1869 - 552 pagine
...brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it." — Beauties of Sterne. " But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears? " TENNYSON. IT was a relief to at least two of... | |
| |
