 | Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 pages
...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 attained by sudden flight...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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 attained by sudden...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1859 - 354 pages
...desert air, When nearer seen and better known Are but gigantic flights of stair. The heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight;...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." I have very little faith in genius ; I think it is after all chiefly toil and drudgery that will make... | |
 | George Francis Train - Fourth of July orations - 1859 - 190 pages
...skies, Are crossed by footpaths that appear When we to higher levels rise. The heights which great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." I have great faith in your learning the simple branches before going beyond your depth in metaphysics.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1859 - 244 pages
...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 attained by sudden flight,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 11* Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...the skies, Are crossed with pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." * " To secure to the old that influence which they are willing to claim, and which might so much contribute... | |
 | William Gresley - 1859 - 380 pages
...climb, By slow degrees — by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." LONGFELLOW. L. " There can be no doubt that moderation, abstractedly, is an excellent Christian grace,... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 320 pages
...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 attained by sudden flight,...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of St. Augustine. L To be young — to be twenty years... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1859 - 300 pages
...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 attained by 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 eyes, We may... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 242 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, n* Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past,... | |
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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. 
