 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.  School Days at Rugby - Pagina 232door Thomas Hughes - 1866 - 405 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1865 - 962 pagina’s
...QUESTION : a Problem in a Novel. By AGNES WXLDE. One Tolume, post 8vo. price 8s. 'I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on etepplnu Ktones Of their dead selves to higher thutgs.' SECOND EDITION OF A MERE STORY. By the Author... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pagina’s
...-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 tones,...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...unanimity, wisdom, and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones....stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S BREECHES. Mr son was lately obliged, under stress... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...truth, And in Thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IN MEMORIAM AHH oBrrr MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pagina’s
...truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. l849. •rii IN MEMORIAM AHH OBHT MDCCCXXXIII. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,...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... | |
 | Rugby sch - 1850 - 176 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OEITT MDCccxxxm. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,...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... | |
 | 1851 - 582 pagina’s
...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,...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 - 1220 pagina’s
...too 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,... | |
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