...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....

...regret, because — " I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in various tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones, Of their dead selves to higher things." Ever affectionately yours, LA FOUGÈRE. " I HAVE no sympathy with any one who would disenchant the...

...MDCCCXXXIII. IN MEMORIAM. HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on steppingstones 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 to...

...Grail." 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. But who shall so forecast the years, And find in loss a gain to match? Or reach a hand through time...

...and leads us to acknowledge a Father's loving hand in our severest trials. So true is it that— " Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Of these lessons, so precious in themselves, and so abiding in their effects, the man who has never...

...OR, THE SECRET ONES.' " I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1872. ~!.. •'.The Last of...

...strange bed-fellows. My thoughts are all a case of knives, wounding my heart. 76 GRAINS OF GOLD, OR Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things. Tennyson. Mark how there still has run, Enwoven from above, Through thy life's darkest woof The golden...

...others that are worthier. " I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp, in diverse tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." * And if men — then mankind ; the " dead selves " are the inferior motives and dispositions which...

...have made a household word of the proverb that falls immortal from the lips of two great poets, that " men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves, to higher things." But it tells only half the truth. The feet rise on stepping-stones, it is true ; but the hands also...

...difficult it is to overcome the fearful habit of intemperance, it is not yet quite impossible " That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." Considering, however, the extreme risk that men run in the matter, it were safer and wiser not to bring...