 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
 | Jane E. Stebbins - 1874 - 516 pages
...how difficult it is to overcome the fearful habit of intemperance, it is not yet quite impossible " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Considering, however, the extreme risk that men run in the matter, it were safer and wiser not to bring... | |
 | Alexander Lamont - 1874 - 396 pages
...chilling blast of presumed defeat. There is a lovely truth in these lines of " In Memoriam " — " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." We shall only ever reach, I say, the full strength of our most perfect manhood here by a continued... | |
 | 1863 - 588 pages
...has been highly beneficial." PKATEE AND EFFOET; on, A PLACE IN GOD'S WORLD FOB EVERY MAN. " 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." TENNTSOIT. THE day is breaking, and heaven... | |
 | 1875 - 942 pages
...INDIANA * •» SCHOOL JOURNAL Voi. xx. JULY, 1875. No- 7ILLUSTRATIVE TEACHING. A MATTIE CURL. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rite on stepping stones Of their dead selvet to higher things." IUNDREDS of years ago, on an island... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. Ibid. Canto vii. I held it truth, with him who sings * To one clear harp in divers tones, 1 Saint Augustine 1 well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame That men may rise on stepping-stones... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves? MRS. LM CHILD. Self-improvement.} XIX. I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. TRNNYSON : In Memariam. Determination.] XX. If there is anything that ought to be said, say it ; if... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...wlieretheylall in truth, And in tliy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AH H(allam.) OBIIT HDCCCXXXIII. I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear...tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead.-selves to higher things. But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match... | |
 | 1876 - 400 pages
...(lately given at a PT Government examination), and parse the words underlined ? : — " I held it true, 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." — KE 87. If 5 men and 7 hoys can reap a field... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pages
...of hope. Failures have been turned into stepping stones of success. " 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, Governor Seymour, of New York,... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - 1876 - 560 pages
...by sorrow, profits much." Thus, in ^Eschylus, we find the recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.'' This last reflection we find in Mr. Plumptre's " Life of JEschylus," from whom also we took the last... | |
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