 | 1882 - 450 pagini
...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...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pagini
...I iiive feet to scale and climb. By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pagini
...aspire — may it not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pagini
...crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to brighter destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, standing on its... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 pagini
...Abernethy, " it is open to that objection." GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great ami small } The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pagini
...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If rising on its wrecks, at last, To something... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pagini
...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...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If rising on its wrecks, at last,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pagini
...emergency. The life of Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden night ; Eut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning,... | |
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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. 
