 | La Fougère (pseud.) - 1871 - 32 pagine
...pleasant days of careless childhood which can return no more, but which we need not regret, because — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in various tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things." Ever affectionately... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pagine
...truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. IN MEMORIAM. HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on steppingstones Of their dead selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pagine
...Laureate's " In Memoriam." In this stanza, two rhyming verses come between other two ; eg:—- " 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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pagine
...Mejley;" " Morte d' Arthur; "" Godiva; "'' Enoch Arden ; " " The Holy Grail." IN MEMORIAL* 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pagine
...them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849 IN MEMORIAM AHH oisirr it *ruth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on 8tepping-st«M«i Of their dead selves to higher 1 But who shall so forecast the years, And find in... | |
 | John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 334 pagine
...and, opportunity, success — so the world wags. CHAPTER XI. I hold it truth with him who sings, On one clear harp, in divers tones, That men may rise, on stepping stones Of their dead lives, to higher things ! OWEVER grievous and crushing we may consider the trials • and troubles... | |
 | Ready - 1873 - 312 pagine
...their creed to heresy, or to public opinion, or to any human authority as a finality. Their belief is that — ' Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things ; ' and the truly brave and single-hearted seeker after truth will fearlessly and boldly follow wherever the... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 pagine
...incentives that operate, and when they have done their work 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... | |
 | W. E. Youngman - 1874 - 256 pagine
...* " There is no benefit without the 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... | |
 | Banner - 1874 - 354 pagine
...us to bear patiently, ay, thankfully, the want of small change now and then. Melody of Psalm xxiii. Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. SCHOOL LIFE. I sat in the school of sorrow, The Master was teaching there ; But my eyes were... | |
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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. 
