 | Ellen Clacy - 1862 - 294 ページ
...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. * Nor deem th" irrevocable Past As whoDy wasted — wholly vain— If, rising... | |
 | Joseph Mullens - 1862 - 508 ページ
...more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in, the night." THE period at which Mr Lacroix arrived in India was one of peculiar interest. The old system of exclusiveness,... | |
 | Joseph Mullens - 1862 - 508 ページ
...more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attaiu'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." THE period at which Mr Lacroix arrived in India was one of peculiar interest. The old system of exclusiveness,... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - 1862 - 186 ページ
...all men of eminent abilities, in all ages, it may be said: " The eminence they reached and kept, Was not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Every man must go over the same ground, experience the same toil, struggle with... | |
 | 1862 - 412 ページ
...all men of eminent abilities, in all ages, it may be said: " The eminence they reached and kept, Was not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night " Every man must go over the same ground, experieence the same toil, struggle... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1862 - 426 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 attained by sudden Might, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The... | |
 | 1862 - 830 ページ
...result of severe appHcation, painstaking thought, undaunted energy. A modern poet truly says : — " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by euddcn flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." They did... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 ページ
...flights of stairs. O 0 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... | |
 | Russel Elliot - 1863 - 208 ページ
... 600087070S WORDS FOR WORKERS: EUSSEL ELLIOT. ' The heights by great men reached and kept "Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." LONGFELLOW. LONDON: JOHN F. SHAW & CO., 48, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW ; WAKREN HALL... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 ページ
...only attained by the same hard work, the same intense study which Hood and others have had to undergo. "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." On the establishment of his health, Hood returned to London, and was apprenticed to an engraver. At... | |
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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. 
