 | Thomas Hughes - 1871 - 432 pages
...think of it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. PART II. " I [hold] it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men m»5 riae on Btepping-stcrps Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNYSON. WHO 'S- COME BA CfT.... | |
 | La Fougère (pseud.) - 1871 - 32 pages
...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... | |
 | Alfred Barry (bp. of Sydney.) - 1871 - 134 pages
...are before, — hardly even sympathise with the more thoughtful spirits of our own day; in their hope "That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." But, brethren. these views of the world and of life, how can they agree with our belief in God's sovereign... | |
 | Alfred Barry - Atonement - 1871 - 132 pages
...are before,—hardly even sympathise with the more thoughtful spirits of our own day, in their hope " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." But, brethren, these views of the world and of life, how can they agree with our belief in God's sovereign... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1871 - 504 pages
...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.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMORIAM. AHH OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII. IN MEMORIAM. HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...thro' time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown 'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...i'rincc^s, a Mejley;" " Morte d' Arthur; "" Godiva; "'' Enoch Arden ; " " The Holy Grail." IN MEMORIAL* I. I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...And find in loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-oiT interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief, lest both be drowned ;... | |
 | Emily Bowles - 1872 - 314 pages
...off past, for ever gone. She might well then have put her thoughts into the great poet's words : ' But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match, Or reach a hand through time to catch The far off interest of tears ?' Yet in the very depths of her loss gain did... | |
 | Stallybrass - 1872 - 358 pages
..."MARY STANLEY; OK, THE SECRET ONES. "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." IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1872. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. CHAP.... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 274 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
