 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.  Poems - Pàgina 148per Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 pàgines
...Two cases of anxiety — Higher class — Bible-women — Young men — ' Raw material of life.' ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' WITH all her intense and unceasing activity there was a scarcely intense repose. There was no haste... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pàgines
...rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed. The Light of Stars. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. , , The Loader of St. A itgustine. Servant of God ! well done ! To William E. Chaning. 274 December... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pàgines
...wedge-like, cleave the desert airs, Y'hen nearer seen and better known Are but gigantic nights of stairs. "The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. " Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted — wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks at last,... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pàgines
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown1 The right of eminent domain.2 We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 1 renown — high reputation, fame. 3 domain— possessorship, or rule. Standing on what too long we... | |
 | 1888 - 658 pàgines
...often been, quoted, and will be quoted again and again : — " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; Hut we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." And, then, two other stanzas from Longfellow will clinch this thought, — that the present hour is... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1879 - 152 pàgines
...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...too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast We eyes, 'e may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the unreturningpast As... | |
 | 1879 - 542 pàgines
...flights of stairs. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are tossed by pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise....companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night VOL. HUBERT MAITLAND'S WRAITH. A NOVEL. BY FELIX HOLLAND. CHAPTER XIII. ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. — (Continued.)... | |
 | 1893 - 80 pàgines
...bastions to the skies, ' Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...upward in the night. Standing on, what too long we love, With shoulders bent, and downcast eyes, We may discern, unsceen before, A path to higher destinies.... | |
 | William Jones (theologian.) - 1879 - 516 pàgines
...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." — Longfettow. IV. The cedar grows by ceaseless activities. The sap, which is the life of the tree,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pàgines
...119 : 11. Josh. 1 : 8. Psa. 1:1,!. Psa. 94 : 12, W. ROBERT DICK: fi. PTUDY f OR YoUj^q CHAPTER I. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." R. SMILES could not have found ta more appropri' ate motto for his "Life of Robert Dick,"* than these... | |
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