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. Poetical Works - Page 7by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Full view - About this book
| 1867 - 874 pages
...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,... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 106 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 100 pages
...16 (First 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...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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
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