 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1868 - 714 ページ
...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... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1904 - 530 ページ
...Distinguished leaders among us today whose lives and labors are well expressed in the following lines: ' 'The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden night, But they while their companions slept, Were tolling upward in the night ". In looking over the... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Phillpotts - 1869 - 194 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1869 - 908 ページ
...spheres of thought and labour. Eat yarn motto be "Excelsior!" The heighta by great men reached and kepi. Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Wen toiling ward to I/a wifkH 22(3 April 10, 1869.] 227 .Jgaculttual (^operation, and the Rational... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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... | |
 | 1870 - 596 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....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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 436 ページ
...flights of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. " The heights by great men reach'd and kept Were not attain'd by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Went toiling... | |
 | 1871 - 314 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... | |
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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. 
