 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.  Titan - Page 5911858Full view - About this book
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pages
...flattering to one's self-complacency. We may even echo the sentiment of Tennyson and sav : — " 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." And yet it is not pleasant to gaze upon the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...the Laureate's " In Memoriam." In this stanza, two rhyming verses come between other two ; eg : — " I held it truth with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stonea 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... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 pages
...suggestions of other men. In * So does Tennyson. In " In Memoriam," the reference — " I held it true, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That we may rise on stepping-stones Of our dead selves to higher things" — is to Longfellow, and his poem... | |
 | Agnes Wylde - 1865 - 378 pages
... HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION. A PROBLEM IN A NOVEL. AGNES WYLDE. ' 1 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.' LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND MARSTON, MII.TON... | |
 | Edward Dutton Cook - 1865 - 358 pages
...cloth, price 12s. HELEN FELTON'S QUESTION: a Problem in a Novel. By AGNES WYLDE. One volume. ' 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.' Second Edition. A MEEE STORY. By the Author... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...they tail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. • I. I HKl.n it trtitl), with him wlio sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Hut who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
 | Living - 1867 - 284 pages
...venerable men, may become our history, as it was that of those to whom St. John referred. " 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." II. We ought to go from strength to strength,... | |
 | 1867 - 874 pages
...to a certain point — say as far up stream as Woolwich. A HEADER OF TENNYSON.— In the lin« — 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones — the laureate certainly refers to Longfellow, and not to Dante, as suggested by one of our contemporaries,... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1868 - 100 pages
...(First Series). 15 Mille animas una necata dedit. Ovid, Fasti, I. 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... | |
 | 1868 - 416 pages
...whole — for the offect would be mr notor,ous — but part by part, poem by poem. How nobly it begins "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." Here, too, is to be found the poets thought... | |
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