| John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 340 страници
...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,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 304 страници
...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 Baillie - 1878 - 462 страници
...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... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1878 - 508 страници
...NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS * In Nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.' SHAKESPEARE. ' The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.' LONGFELLOW. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1878 ,*;«.« ;. 4-****-i,«7... | |
| Choice poems - 1879 - 206 страници
...nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...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 страници
...nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed 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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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.... | |
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