 | John Towle Marriott - 1879 - 204 oldal
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. 3 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 4 Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 oldal
...119 : 11. Josh. 1 : 8. Psa. 1:1,!. Psa. 94 : 12, W. ROBERT DICK: fi. PTUDY f OR YoUj^q CHAPTER I. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." R. SMILES could not have found ta more appropri' ate motto for his "Life of Robert Dick,"* than these... | |
 | William Jones (theologian.) - 1879 - 516 oldal
...have 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." — Longfettow. IV. The cedar grows by ceaseless activities. The sap, which is the life of the tree,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 534 oldal
...AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS "In Nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read." SHAKESPEARE. "The heights by great men reached and kept "Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE 1879 PREFACE.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 oldal
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, PROMETHEUS, OR THE POET'S FORETHOUGHT. OF Prometheus, how undaunted On Olympus' shining bastions His... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 oldal
...fall; But if true lips have said to me, " I love you," I have known it all ! Phœbe Cary. June June 15. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...discern — unseen before, A path to higher destinies. HW Longfellmv. June 17. A beauty that bewilders like a spell Reigns in thine eye's clear hazel, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 686 oldal
...crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached anj kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they,...path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast, As wholly wasted, wholly vain. If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.... | |
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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. 
