 | Thomas Hughes - 1868 - 454 Seiten
...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. "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. Who's come Back ? 203 CHAPTER I.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1868 - 388 Seiten
...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. '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. Who's come Back? 203 CHAPTER I. HOW... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1868 - 308 Seiten
...sorrow profits much." — Eumen., 491- 94. But with this recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," there is also a consciousness, dim and dark, as of one groping after a truth which he feels rather... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 658 Seiten
...they fail in truth. And in thy w'sdom make me wise. 1849. IS MEHOKIAM. A, HH OBIIT MDCCCXXXTH. I. I it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 Seiten
...treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Skelley. I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. PIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Figures of speech are intentional deviations from the ordinary form,... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 Seiten
...one, nevertheless. Of such as Heloi'sc, as well as any others, the poet's philosophy is correct : " I held 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. " Rousseau produced many works upon a variety... | |
 | 1869 - 880 Seiten
...to recover from their wounds, and fight again, and win at last — if they would ! CHAPTER X. 14 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on slepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNVSOK. Polycarpe Poquet found it more difficult... | |
 | Author of Ellen Clinton, Mrs. - Woodward - 1869 - 552 Seiten
...brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it." — Beauties of Sterne. " But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears? " TENNYSON. IT was a relief to at least two of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 Seiten
...where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd. Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - 1890 - 88 Seiten
...opening lines of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" would seem to have a special and inspiring significsnce: "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." The literature of phthisis is voluminous. From... | |
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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. 
