 | Bibliography - 1865 - 962 pages
...QUESTION : a Problem in a Novel. By AGNES WXLDE. One Tolume, post 8vo. price 8s. 'I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones. That men may rise on etepplnu Ktones Of their dead selves to higher thutgs.' SECOND EDITION OF A MERE STORY. By the Author... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...-who will follow their own wilful way. It may be God's way of saving them after all. " 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." ealjr 0f AND now that Sarah was dead, Abraham... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...unanimity, wisdom, and virtue."— Gni:ot: Preface to the " Life of Washiaffloii" " 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." Tennyton't " /» Memvriam." SCRAPS. TIIE SCHOLAR'S... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pages
...truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. l849. •rii IN MEMORIAM AHH OBHT MDCCCXXXIII. 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 And find... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Grief - 1850 - 228 pages
...truth, And in Thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. vii IN MEMORIAM AHH oBrrr MDCCCXXXIII. 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 And find... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 422 pages
...fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. IN MEMOEIAM AHH OEITT MDCccxxxm. 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 And find... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...familiar simplicity which spoiled some of his earlier writings. It opens finely : — " I held it troth, with him -who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may nse on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " But who shall so forecast the years,... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 404 pages
...The Passing of Arthur. "Better not be at all than not be noble." — The Princess. "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." — In Memoriam. "Hower'er it be, it seems... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Boarding schools - 1857 - 446 pages
...it." And they went on to talk of other subjects. TOM BROWS SCHOOL DATS. PART II. " I [hold] it truthn 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." TENNYSON. CHAPTER I. HOW THE TIDE TURNED. "... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 784 pages
...and then repeated those lines of a great poet, which he well knew and loved : — < I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp, in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stonea Of their dead selves, to higher things.' He awoke, and found his head upon a cold hard... | |
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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. 
