 | John Cumming - 1854 - 308 страници
...it. We see the glory that is entered, but we are ignorant of the toils which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 страници
...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like eleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known,...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 страници
...DESIGNED AS INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY. BY JOHN G. EJDGAR, AOTHOR OF "THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN." The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden Jligni, Hut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LONGFELLOW. Ellustratfons.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 страници
...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...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 страници
...right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | 1855 - 396 страници
...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...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | 1855 - 396 страници
...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...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 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...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 страници
...of Padan Aram, I first realized the immensity ofthat only surviving wonder of the ancient world.* '* The mighty Pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...desert airs, When nearer seen and better known. Are hut gigaiitic flights of stairs." Leaving Ibrahim to prepare our breakfast, the most courageous of... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 страници
...of Padan Aram, I first realized the immensity of that only surviving wonder of the ancient world.* " The mighty Pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and l»etter known. Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Leaving Ibrahim to prepare our breakfast, the... | |
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We have not wings, we cannot soar; But 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 the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but... 
