 | Maria D. Weston - 1866 - 426 pages
...follow the fortunes of this misguided young lady, with us, in another chapter. • CHAPTER XXXIV. " But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss,...match ; Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears." — TENNYSON. " I could sometimes die, life's changeless pulse Beateth... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...they tail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. • I. I HKl.n it trtitl), with him wlio sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Hut who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to... | |
 | 1866 - 628 pages
...to by Tennyson in the lines — • I bold It truth with him who sings To one clear harp In diver* tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' Celia. — // 32 pp. are not an 'observable enlargement' in our Christinas Number, observation can... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pages
...denied, if they keep the soul from reaching its truest height, its rest in the light of God. ' Thus " men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." Is not this destrnction of the lower that we may reach the higher, when the two are irreconcilably... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1867 - 234 pages
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOHIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain ty) match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears 1 Let Love clasp Grief... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 512 pages
...reality without a shadow on its clearness. And yet, alas ! there are those who will sometimes ask, " But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss...a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to oitch The far-off interest of tears t " 1858. SAMUEL HENRY EELLS. Hospital Steward 12th Michigan Vols.... | |
 | Living - 1867 - 284 pages
...venerable men, may become our history, as it was that of those to whom St. John referred. " 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." II. We ought to go from strength to strength,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 202 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...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro" time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? " — Tennyson. 167. The Simple Regular Trimeter... | |
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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. 
