 | 1877 - 362 oldal
...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 ! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only... | |
 | Language - 1877 - 316 oldal
...scandals' tints, With all the high mendacity of hints. — Byron, Monkshood (Helmet Flower) { ( errantry. Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. — Tennyson. Moonwort ............... Forgttfulncss. Morning Glory ............... Affectation. And... | |
 | 1878 - 638 oldal
...stanza from In Memoriam : " I hold, in truth, with him who sinfis, To one clear harp of divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Millersville, Pa. JWW No. 60 gives all the light we have been able to obtain upon this point. 115.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 oldal
...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 in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro' time to... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 oldal
...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 » telegram from Mr. Francis Freeman : — " Expect... | |
 | Margaret Gatty - 1878 - 290 oldal
...he reading as before : — ' I hold it truth with him who sings To one cl«ar harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' ' ' When, what was my surprise to see my friend fling the book down, lay his arm on the table, and... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1879 - 270 oldal
...might learn Thy precepts.' And you know In Memoriam ?" " Yes." " ' I hold it truth with him that sings, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things,' " she repeated softly; "Fred will rise to 'higher things.' " " Ah, you are so full of faith," he answered.... | |
 | 1885 - 650 oldal
...wisdom." — PSALM xc., 1 z. " 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." TENNYSON'S In Memoriam. WE are all born, as it were, in a valley. Starting from the cradle our pathway... | |
 | T. Williams - 1879 - 126 oldal
...self-love comes into direct condiet ; so much so that, not only is it true that, as the poet says, — " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," but that there is, indeed, no other way by which they can really rise. Our present point, however,... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1880 - 590 oldal
...it had only been ' borne in upon his mind' — in Quaker parlance — that it is a veritable truth, that — " ' Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' But my poor brother appears never to have profited by the lessons of experience, and then — God forbid... | |
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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. 
