 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 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...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 страници
...That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The hei»hts by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 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...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The Ladder of St. Augustine. October 20. For he was great of heart, magnanimous, Courtly, courageous. The... | |
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 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...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. ' Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen... | |
 | James Mudie Spence - 1878 - 390 страници
...declared the Naiguatd to be impregnable ; but " The distant mountains that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise." At 3.45 PM the thermometer registered 27,° at 5 PM 63°, and at sunset 60°. Now came the evening... | |
 | 1893 - 80 страници
...Longfellow's •"Ladder of St. Augustine." "Ye mighty pyramids of stone " That wedgelike cleave the air, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic...that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions... | |
 | 1879 - 542 страници
...difficulties, and mountains are levelled, oceans are bounded, by the slender hand of human beings. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are tossed by pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept... | |
 | John Towle Marriott - 1879 - 204 страници
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. 3 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 страници
...That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic Ilights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear Ля we to higher levels rise. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and do\vnc:i.4i... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 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...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long... | |
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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... 
