...to a certain point — say as far up stream as Woolwich. A HEADER OF TENNYSON.— In the lin« — 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones — the laureate certainly refers to Longfellow, and not to Dante, as suggested by one of our contemporaries,...

...consolation, and leads us to acknowledge a Father's loving hand in our severest trials. So true is it that— " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Of these lessons, so precious in themselves, and so abiding in their effects, the man who has never...

...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...thro" time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? " — Tennyson. 167. The Simple Regular Trimeter is very rarely used by itself, though there are...

...Series). 15 Mille animas una necata dedit. Ovid, Fasti, I. 380. 16 Tennyson. (In Memoriam, I.) : I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. SERMON III. 1 Acts xvii. 18. 2 See Hume's Essay on Miracles. Strauss' New Life of Jesus. Introduction,...

...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...

...— 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...

...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....

...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...

...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOKIAM AHH OB1IT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown' d, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death,...

...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,...