 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The clondy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sndden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on... | |
 | 1872 - 710 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our tune. wns support the dancer's heel ; The moist of human...mighty void the dry; Earth repossesses part of what uprcar Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | 1872 - 692 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed... | |
 | 1881 - 592 страници
...staircase ; and Longfellow's verse holds good : — ' The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs.' But you ask, What are these buildings there for? I answer, They are tombstones — just huge tombstones... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 страници
...Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. Omne ignotum pro magnifico — The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. Omnia'mundana nugas aestima — Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue... | |
 | A M. M - 1873 - 242 страници
...pursuit of knowledge ; and Longfellow's beautiful lines often recurred to her mind, — " The lofty pyramids of stone. That, wedge-like, cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are out gigantic flights of stairs." Then the feeling grew to be more and more strong with her, that every... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | 1871 - 586 страници
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more aud more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skiei Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The... | |
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The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When 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 pathways, that appear As... 
