 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 pages
...them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849 IN MEMORIAM AHH oisirr it *ruth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on 8tepping-st«M«i Of their dead selves to higher 1 But who shall so forecast the years, And find in... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - Ethics - 1873 - 172 pages
...place to others that are worthier. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp, in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." * And if men — then mankind ; the " dead selves " are the inferior motives and dispositions which... | |
 | Universalism - 1873 - 522 pages
...We have made a household word of the proverb that falls immortal from the lips of two great poets, that " men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." But it tells only half the truth. The feet rise on stepping-stones, it is true ; but the hands also reach... | |
 | Words, E. S. - 1873 - 184 pages
...strange bed-fellows. My thoughts are all a case of knives, wounding my heart. 76 GRAINS OF GOLD, OR Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things. Tennyson. Mark how there still has run, Enwoven from above, Through thy life's darkest woof The golden... | |
 | W. E. Youngman - English fiction - 1874 - 256 pages
...* " 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...stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." — LONGFELLOW. cities have held strange relations to God I and man — Jerusalem and Rome : one called... | |
 | Day - 1874 - 378 pages
...LONDON: PRINTED BT MAODONALD AND TDGWELL, BLENHEIM HOUSE, BLENHEIM STREET, OXFORD STREET. BOOK: iv I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Inconstancy... | |
 | Jane E. Stebbins - Temperance - 1874 - 516 pages
...how difficult it is to overcome the fearful habit of intemperance, it is not yet quite impossible " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Considering, however, the extreme risk that men run in the matter, it were safer and wiser not to bring... | |
 | Alexander Lamont - Christian life - 1874 - 396 pages
...chilling blast of presumed defeat. There is a lovely truth in these lines of " In Memoriam " — " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." We shall only ever reach, I say, the full strength of our most perfect manhood here by a continued... | |
 | Children with social disabilities - 1863 - 588 pages
...has been highly beneficial." PKATEE AND EFFOET; on, A PLACE IN GOD'S WORLD FOB EVERY MAN. " 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." TENNTSOIT. THE day is breaking, and heaven... | |
 | Education - 1875 - 942 pages
...INDIANA * •» SCHOOL JOURNAL Voi. xx. JULY, 1875. No- 7ILLUSTRATIVE TEACHING. A MATTIE CURL. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rite on stepping stones Of their dead selvet to higher things." IUNDREDS of years ago, on an island... | |
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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. 
