 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 732 ページ
...flights of stairs. ' The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear As we to higher levels rise....great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too... | |
 | 1858 - 456 ページ
...we have f'eet 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...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." In a country like America men of sound minds, who recognise in the family the... | |
 | 1858 - 734 ページ
...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 ページ
...flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise....companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 136 ページ
...flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise....companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. % Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 ページ
...of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed with pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise....companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." * " To secure to the old that influence which they are willing to claim, and which might so much contribute... | |
 | William Gresley - 1859 - 380 ページ
...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." LONGFELLOW. L. " There can be no doubt that moderation, abstractedly, is an excellent Christian grace,... | |
 | 1859 - 300 ページ
...we 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. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | George Francis Train - 1859 - 190 ページ
...to the skies, Are crossed by footpaths that appear When we to higher levels rise. The heights which great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." I have great faith in your learning the simple branches before going beyond your depth in metaphysics.... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 320 ページ
...we 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...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of St. Augustine. L To be young — to be twenty years... | |
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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. 
