 | 1876 - 400 pages
...following lines, showing especially the kind of each sentence. " I hold it true with him who lings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping atones, Of their dead selves to higher tilings." 2. Parse fully the words which are in italics. GEOGRAPHY.—... | |
 | Jessie Fothergill - 1877 - 320 pages
...AND VIVAT REX !" T this time I used often to think of those sad words from " In Memoriam :" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...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 stretch a hand through... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...— BYRON, Don Juan, — MEN may live fools, but fools they cannot die. YOUNG, Night Thoughts. — 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, In Memoriam. — Oh, shame to MEN... | |
 | Anna Deborah Richardson - 1877 - 340 pages
...dear love to Constance, and ask her if she can tell me who Tennyson means in the lines : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp, in divers tones, That men may riae on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." B IN MEMORIAL. 183 Who is " He who... | |
 | John Emelius Lancelot Shadwell - 1877 - 662 pages
...they now lead. The sketch of the progress of Political Economy which I am about to give will show " That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things " in this and all other departments of knowledge. It will be the more useful, because iu learning the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 pages
...make me wlM. 1S19. IN MEMORIAM. • AHH ODIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I. I HEt.D it trnth, with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stone* Of their dead selves to higher things. Bnt who shall so forecast the years, And nnd... | |
 | 1878 - 294 pages
...exactly quoted, belong to the firs stanza of the body of " In Memoriam," which i¡ as follows : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Who thus "sings" we cannot tell. The senti ment — "stepping stones of their dead selves" — is a... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 pages
...still lingered in the west, and the tide was fast going out. CHAPTER XXXIII. ME. FREEMAN'S JOUENEY. " 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." EARLY on Monday morning, Roger Brndenell received... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...wasted youth ; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 18,9. 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... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1878 - 272 pages
...frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame ; ' or, as Tennyson puts it, that ' Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' " Still, when temptation assails, the question is practical and important. Shall I be the better and... | |
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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. 
