 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.  Poetical Works - Page 7by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 880 pages
...to recover from their wounds, and fight again, and win at last — if they would ! CHAPTER X. 14 1 held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on slepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNVSOK. Polycarpe Poquet found it more difficult... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - Medicine - 1890 - 88 pages
...opening lines of 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. From... | |
 | E L. Hull - 1870 - 274 pages
...how the solemn act of dying with Him begins the glory of a new and divine life in the heart ? how " Men may rise on stepping.stones Of their dead selves, to higher things? " But mark, here, that the fact of Christ living in you is as deep and transforming an energy as we saw just... | |
 | 1870 - 972 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.... | |
 | 1869 - 1500 pages
...springs best out of the ashes .of the old ; that the soundest reformation ever comes from within — " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." The opposite opinion has been widely fostered by the hatred for innovations which is naturally cherished... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - Sermons, English - 1871 - 280 pages
...GEORGE EDWARD JELF, MA VICAB OF BLACKMOOR, HANTS ; AND SOMETIME STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD. ' I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones ". ~. . Of their dead selves to higher things.' "-,'. — IN MEMOBIAM. LONDON: J. AND C. MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW; OXFORD : J. PARKER AND CO. 1871.... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - Apologetics - 1871 - 252 pages
...though he somewhat qualified his own saying, almost immediately after he had uttered it, — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." But to our subject. No one, who has studied Eenan's work with attention, can help discovering that he labours... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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