...dozen centuries, will ever perish out of present use, or become a mere historical monument. ' I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.' Old dispensations arc perpetually fulfilled in new ones. The life of the Church is like the life of...

...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...

...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 may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNYSON. Who's come Back? 203 CHAPTER I. HOW...

...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 may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher things." TENNYSON. Who's come Back ? 203 CHAPTER I....

...sorrow profits much." — Eumen., 491- 94. But with this recognition of a moral discipline by which men " May rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things," there is also a consciousness, dim and dark, as of one groping after a truth which he feels rather...

...they fail in truth. And in thy w'sdom make me wise. 1849. IS MEHOKIAM. A, HH OBIIT MDCCCXXXTH. I. I it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...interest of tears ? Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss : Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death,...

...treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Skelley. I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson. PIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. Figures of speech are intentional deviations from the ordinary form,...

...one, nevertheless. Of such as Heloi'sc, as well as any others, the poet's philosophy is correct : " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stopping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. " Rousseau produced many works upon a variety...

...brought to batter it in breach, should not all have power to overthrow it." — Beauties of Sterne. " 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? " TENNYSON. IT was a relief to at least two of...

...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...