 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 oldal
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that upvear Their solid hastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Xor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | 1928 - 480 oldal
...when the ordinary man commenced the work of the day. We are reminded of the statement of Longfellow: "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." Thoroughness was one of his traits. At sixteen years of age he was a surveyor of recognized ability.... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1868 - 714 oldal
...of modern times." Longfellow has beautifully said, in words which are familiar to every reader, — "The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Never was the truth of this maxim more fully verified than in the life of Prince... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Phillpotts - 1869 - 194 oldal
...we fume feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. RIVINGTONS $otti)on, (.Ox tori), anb 1869 CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE DREAMLAND . . I CHAPTER II THE HAY-FIELD... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1869 - 590 oldal
...us, let us pray that our spiritual sight may be enlightened as regarde these things ; and then, — " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent,...discern— unseen before — A path to higher destinies." E. CLIFFORD. A RECOLLECTION OF CHILDHOOD. Iv is more than fifty years ago. I was a child then; I am... | |
 | 1870 - 596 oldal
...known, Aw but gigantic flights of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies Are crossed by pathways that appear As...sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Went toiling upward in the night." Teachers, it is not written, " Be ye followers of them who, on the... | |
 | 1870 - 614 oldal
...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. 3 Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | 1899 - 312 oldal
...have become living thoughts, one of which found exemplification in his own life : " The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." AF The Autobiography of a Coin. V. reader, you, in all probability, have been led to a perusal of this... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1871 - 776 oldal
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. "The distant mountains, that uproar Their solid bastions to the skies. Are crossed by pathways, that appear...by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slfrit, Jl'ere tailing upward in Uu night." But it is needful to add a caution. Let us never so earnestly... | |
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The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 
