 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - 1890 - 88 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - 1871 - 252 Seiten
...qualified his own saying, almost 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 Seiten
...there I find him worthier to be loved. IN MEMORIAM AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. I. 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. But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - 1871 - 280 Seiten
...VICAB OF BLACKMOOR, HANTS ; AND SOMETIME STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. ' 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.' "-,'. — IN MEMOBIAM. LONDON:... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 Seiten
...Memoriam." In this stanza, two rhyming verses 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... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 Seiten
...Arthur; "" Godiva; "'' Enoch Arden ; " " The Holy Grail." IN MEMORIAL* 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. But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 Seiten
...wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. IN MEMORIAM. 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. But who shall so forecast the years And... | |
 | W. E. Youngman - 1874 - 256 Seiten
...To make me pure of sin." * " There is no benefit without the will that accepts it." CHAPTER VI. " I hold it truth, with one who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." — LONGFELLOW. cities have held strange... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 Seiten
...in thy wisdom make me wise. IN MEMORIAM. AHH • OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. 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. But who shall so forecast the years... | |
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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. 
