 | 1863 - 588 pagine
...proceeding has been highly beneficial." PKATEE AND EFFOET; on, A PLACE IN GOD'S WORLD FOB EVERY MAN. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping stones Of their DEAD SELVES to higher things." TENNTSOIT. THE day is breaking, and heaven has put her " Torches out j The wolves have preyed, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pagine
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. IN 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... | |
 | 1875 - 942 pagine
...Co. INDIANA * •» SCHOOL JOURNAL Voi. xx. JULY, 1875. No- 7ILLUSTRATIVE TEACHING. A MATTIE CURL. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rite on stepping stones Of their dead selvet to higher things." IUNDREDS of years ago, on an island... | |
 | Sarah Doudney - 1875 - 376 pagine
...self-reproach. What had become of all those dreams of usefulness which she had once cherished ? If it be a fact that " Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things," may it not also be said that we look back regretfully on those heaps of good intentions by which we... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagine
...to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. Ibid. Canto vii. I held it truth, with him who sings * To one 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... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pagine
...of hope. Failures have been turned into stepping stones of success. " I hold it truth, with him _who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." — Tennyson, Governor Seymour, of New York, once said in an address that if God should give him permission... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pagine
...for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves? MRS. LM CHILD. Self-improvement.} XIX. 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. TRNNYSON : In Memariam. Determination.] XX.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pagine
...in which there is a stanza that expresses musically the 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pagine
...truth, And in tliy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AH H(allam.) OBIIT HDCCCXXXIII. 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... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pagine
...and proceeds by adequate methods. And, thus proceeding, many have come to know with Tennyson — " That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In this culture, knowledge plays an essential part. Ignorance is not the mother of Christian devotion... | |
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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. 
