 | Jessie Fothergill - 1877 - 320 頁
...AND VIVAT REX !" T this time I used often to think of those sad words from " In Memoriam :" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...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 stretch a hand through... | |
 | 1877 - 362 頁
...— BYRON, Don Juan, — MEN may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 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... | |
 | Anna Deborah Richardson - 1877 - 340 頁
...dear love to Constance, and ask her if she can tell me who Tennyson means in the lines : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp, in divers tones, That men may riae on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." B IN MEMORIAL. 183 Who is " He who... | |
 | John Emelius Lancelot Shadwell - 1877 - 662 頁
...they now lead. The sketch of the progress of Political Economy which I am about to give will show " That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things " in this and all other departments of knowledge. It will be the more useful, because iu learning the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 392 頁
...make me wlM. 1S19. IN MEMORIAM. • AHH ODIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I. I HEt.D it trnth, with him who singe To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stone* Of their dead selves to higher things. Bnt who shall so forecast the years, And nnd... | |
 | 1878 - 294 頁
...exactly quoted, belong to the firs stanza of the body of " In Memoriam," which i¡ as follows : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Who thus "sings" we cannot tell. The senti ment — "stepping stones of their dead selves" — is a... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 頁
...still lingered in the west, and the tide was fast going out. CHAPTER 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 頁
...wasted youth ; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in 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... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1878 - 272 頁
...frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame ; ' or, as Tennyson puts it, that ' Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' " Still, when temptation assails, the question is practical and important. Shall I be the better and... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1878 - 598 頁
...do—we hope to justify the language of England's greatest living poet,— May yd, 1878. GW ANGWIN. " That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." HELSTON CIRCUIT. DEAR MR. EDITOR,—Nothing having been forwarded of late respecting this circuit,... | |
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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. 
