 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 354 oldal
...quotation from St. Augustine. 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. Many persons on reading the " In Memoriam," have inquired who it is that is referred to. Longfellow... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1880 - 280 oldal
...beneath. — Shakespeare. 6. I hold, in 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. 7. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. — Mrs. LM Child.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 oldal
...MILTOX. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, shed the red in jicmfriam. TENNYSON. Saint Augustine ! well hast thon said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder,... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 oldal
...judgment of your fellow-men. " I hold it truth, with Mm who sings To one clear harp, in divers tunes, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In Mtmoriam. "The height by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they,... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 oldal
...quotation from St. Augustine. 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. Many persons on reading the ." In Memoriam," have inquired who it is that is referred to. Longfellow... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 oldal
...thy wisdom make me wise. I held it truth, with him who sings 45 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? so Or reach a hand through time... | |
 | 1880 - 576 oldal
...So long as ' In . Memoriam ' is read people will ask, Who ' sings to one clear harp in divers tones, that men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things ' ? What is the meaning of ' before the crimson circled star had fallen into her father's grave ' ?... | |
 | Arthur Evans Moule - 1880 - 106 oldal
...sorrows.) 14. If you bear suffering upon suffering, you will soon rise step by step over other men. "... Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." 15. If you give out publicly, you will receive it back secretly. (A strange contrast this to our Lord's... | |
 | Occasional thoughts - 1881 - 162 oldal
...courage, and victory over self. " 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. When one has been indulging faithless fears and allowing remorse to fill the heart, instead... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 oldal
...wisdom make me wise. 1849. t. 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... | |
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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. 
