 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.  Hesperides - Pàgina 54per Frank Carr - 1885 - 485 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1879 - 732 pàgines
...to wrestle after thy race." "Most willingly," replied the unwearied youth, and almost, in a breath, overthrew seven of the strongest soldiers of the army....he knew as well as our laureate's anonymous bard, . i , , " That men may ris« on stepping stones .i • Of their dead selves to higher things ;'' for... | |
 | 1885 - 650 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1879 - 270 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | T. Williams - 1879 - 126 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 354 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 pàgines
...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... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1880 - 576 pàgines
...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 ' ?... | |
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