 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 - Sivu 7tekijä(t) Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1865 - 962 sivua
...price 12s. [0* Tuctiiy. HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION : a Problem, in a Novel. 1 vol. post 8vo. 4 1 bold 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.' The GREAT SCHOOLS of ENGLAND : a Synoptical... | |
 | 1884 - 656 sivua
...children -who will follow their own wilful way. It may be God's way of saving them after all. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." ealjr 0f AND now that Sarah was dead, Abraham came to mourn and to weep over her. But was not Abraham... | |
 | 1883 - 498 sivua
...will he realize, more vividly every day, the poet's words : — " I held it true with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." THE END. obtmnfa: I. — DENHOLME. OUR New... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 sivua
...largest amount of unanimity, wisdom, and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S BREECHES. Mr son was lately obliged, under stress... | |
 | Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 sivua
...bowing to it as a despot. Perfection is- above us, and we should strive to mount the ladder, knowing that men may " rise on< stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." It is not therefore at all inconsistent with present energy to look back into the past, thougJi to... | |
 | 1851 - 582 sivua
...explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : •• I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher thing*. " The following stanza, also in the poem numbered 87., much needs interpretation : *' Or cooled... | |
 | 1851 - 568 sivua
...able to explain the reference in the following verse, the first in this beautiful series of poems : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, 1 hat men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The following stanza,... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 sivua
...familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens finely : — " I held it troth, with him -who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may nse on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
 | 1851 - 724 sivua
...on the too familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens finely : — " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tone«, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher tilings. " But who shall... | |
 | 1893 - 404 sivua
...world." — The Passing of Arthur. "Better not be at all than not be noble." — The Princess. "I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." — In Memoriam. "Hower'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more... | |
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