 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.  Self Culture - Pagina 6231895Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 106 pagina’s
...consolation, and leads us to acknowledge a Father's loving hand in our severest trials. So true is it that— " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Of these lessons, so precious in themselves, and so abiding in their effects, the man who has never... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 100 pagina’s
...380. 16 Tennyson. (In Memoriam, I.) : 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. SERMON III. 1 Acts xvii. 18. 2 See Hume's Essay on Miracles. Strauss' New Life of Jesus. Introduction,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 202 pagina’s
...come between other two ; eg : — " 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 in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand thro" time... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1868 - 308 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1869 - 88 pagina’s
...thou scorner of the ground ! Skelley. 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. PIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Figures of speech are intentional deviations from the ordinary form,... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pagina’s
...springs best out of the ashes .of the old ; that the soundest reformation ever comes from within — " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The opposite opinion has been widely fostered by the hatred for innovations which is naturally cherished... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pagina’s
...lesson which taught you your own frailty, your own unworthiness. Do you remember that some one has said that men may rise "« On stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things' ? And our sinful selves should be our dead selves, my dear. Now we will talk about something else.... | |
 | E L. Hull - 1870 - 274 pagina’s
...how the solemn act of dying with Him begins the glory of a new and divine life in the heart ? how " Men may rise on stepping.stones Of their dead selves, to higher things? " But mark, here, that the fact of Christ living in you is as deep and transforming an energy as we... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - 1871 - 252 pagina’s
...immediately after he had uttered it, — " 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." But to our subject. No one, who has studied Eenan's work with attention, can help discovering that... | |
 | La Fougère (pseud.) - 1871 - 32 pagina’s
...we need not regret, because — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in various tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things." Ever affectionately yours, LA FOUGÈRE. " I HAVE no sympathy with any one who would disenchant the... | |
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