| 1870 - 596 páginas
...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, Went toiling upward in the night." Teachers, it is not written, " Be ye followers of them who, on the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 páginas
...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... | |
| 1899 - 312 páginas
...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 flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." AF The Autobiography of a Coin. V. reader, you, in all probability,... | |
| 1871 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
| Mary Webster McClain - 1871 - 272 páginas
...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.'" " And all the many, many failures, the great number of ' dead and... | |
| Winifred Taylor - 1871 - 362 páginas
...with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' LONGFELLOW. ^HERE was no twittering of birds to wake Violet next... | |
| rev Andrew Cameron - 1871 - 776 páginas
...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...by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slfrit, Jl'ere tailing upward in Uu night." But it is needful to add a caution. Let us never so earnestly... | |
| 1871 - 868 páginas
...his works survive him. His name is his monument, and his writings are AM memorial. " The height«, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by...sudden flight; But they, -while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."—'Longfel'o«. e ^aht jof (Smtba. y HINKING it may Ъе interesting... | |
| 1872 - 710 páginas
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. P Q R S \ % . / Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast... | |
| James Stephen Jeans - 1872 - 212 páginas
...doing, is worth doing well. No man alive has furnished a more fitting illustration of the lines— " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Every sentence which Dr. Caird utters in his discourses is turned... | |
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