 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1871 - 504 pages
...lesson which taught you your own frailty, your own unworthiness. Do you remember that some one has said that men may rise " ' On stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things ' ? And our sinful selves should be our dead selves, my dear. Now we will talk about something else.... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pages
...the 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...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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...i'rincc^s, a 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...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 through time... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...fail in 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...steppingstones 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... | |
 | Stallybrass - 1872 - 358 pages
..."MARY STANLEY; OK, THE SECRET ONES. "I held 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." IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1872. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. CHAP.... | |
 | Stallybrass - 1872 - 352 pages
...CAMERON. VOL. II. Jrom drJrnb to ^ntttrflg. BY THE AUTHOR OF " MARY STANLEY ; OR, THE SECRET ONES.' " I held 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." IN THREE... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...MEMORIAM. AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXI1I. t I UF.LD it truth, with him who eings To one clear harp in divers tone?. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher thing*. But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro'... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 pages
...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 men — then mankind ; the " dead selves " are the inferior motives and dispositions which... | |
 | 1873 - 522 pages
...We have made a household word of the proverb that falls immortal from the lips of two great poets, that " men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." But it tells only half the truth. The feet rise on stepping-stones, it is true ; but the hands also... | |
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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. 
