 | Henry Allon - 1868 - 670 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1868 - 454 pages
...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.... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1868 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pages
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - 1890 - 88 pages
...opening lines of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" would seem to have a special and inspiring significsnce: "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 literature of phthisis is voluminous. From... | |
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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. 
