 | Education - 1908 - 436 pages
...But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The lofty summits of our time. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while thslr companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Longfellow. "Thoughts were never draped in... | |
 | Religion - 1857 - 830 pages
...appear, As we to higher levels rise. • ' Gabriel.' By Bessie Rayner Parkes. J. Chapman, t Longfellow. Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, The heights by great men reached and kept Were toiling upward in the night. We may discern, unseen... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 pages
...wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." J * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - History - 1859 - 228 pages
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 pages
...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...sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling iipward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...frowning foreheads to the skies. Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Standing... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 320 pages
...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...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of St. Augustine. To be young—to be twenty... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 596 pages
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast... | |
 | William Gresley - 1859 - 380 pages
...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...sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." L. " There can be no doubt that moderation, abstractedly, is an... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 136 pages
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast... | |
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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, 
