 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. Ibid. Canto vii. I held it truth, with him who sings * To one clear harp in divers tones, 1 Saint Augustine 1 well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame That men may rise on stepping-stones... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves? MRS. LM CHILD. Self-improvement.} XIX. I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. TRNNYSON : In Memariam. Determination.] XX. If there is anything that ought to be said, say it ; if... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...wlieretheylall in truth, And in tliy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AH H(allam.) OBIIT HDCCCXXXIII. I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...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... | |
 | 1876 - 400 pages
...(lately given at a PT Government examination), and parse the words underlined ? : — " I held it true, 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." — KE 87. If 5 men and 7 hoys can reap a field... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pages
...of hope. Failures have been turned into stepping stones of success. " 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, Governor Seymour, of New York,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...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...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. TENNYSON, In Memoriam. — Oh, shame to MEN ! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only... | |
 | Jessie Fothergill - 1877 - 320 pages
...KING, 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 tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " But who shall so forecast the years, And find... | |
 | Anna Deborah Richardson - 1877 - 340 pages
...give my 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... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 pages
...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...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." EARLY on Monday morning, Roger Brndenell received » telegram from Mr. Francis Freeman : — " Expect... | |
 | 1878 - 294 pages
...lines, 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 divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Who thus "sings" we cannot tell. The senti... | |
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I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on steppingstones Of their dead selves to higher things. 
