 | A. P. Allen - Selling - 1885 - 310 pages
...we make genuine progress, and thus only. To quote the words of our Poet-Peer — " 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." " Coming, seeing, and conquering," is very... | |
 | John Henry Lester - 1885 - 152 pages
...Such lives fail, because they have lost the true principle of progress. O brothers — " hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may risa on stepping-stones Of their dead souls to higher things." O Jesus, true Son of Man, teach us to-day... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1886 - 694 pages
...youth ; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. 1849. 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... | |
 | Calendars - 1886 - 216 pages
...faithfully, manfully to be right ; he will grow daily more and more right CARLYLE. 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. TENNYSOH. 11. Let thine eyes look right on,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
..." We always may be what we might have been." He is the Laureate's singer of hope : 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. And the third characteristic of the religious... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1886 - 352 pages
...among the ivy, which flourishes only on decay; it is the time to cry with the poet: "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." ROBEBT COLLYEB. "HE SHEWED HIMSELF-ALIVE1"... | |
 | William Cochrane - Missionaries - 1887 - 346 pages
...away from error ; and this state is well expressed in Tennyson's beautiful lines : 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 better things. The speaker does not believe that if the apostles... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...phraseology in perfect harmony. Next, take a stanza from Tennyson's ' In Meinoriam'; 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 opening phrase, ' I held it truth,' is the... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1888 - 360 pages
...manhood, rather than because of any special relationship he may sustain to him. " He holds it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones f . Of their dead selves to higher things." The "higher thing" with him always is unity,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 pages
...youth ; Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in thy wisdom make me wise. .1849 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. But who shall so forecast the years And find... | |
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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. 
