 | 1882 - 450 páginas
...we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures... | |
 | 1874 - 990 páginas
...aspire — may it not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 páginas
...but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the sides, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher...levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 páginas
...Abernethy, " it is open to that objection." GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great ami small } The... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 páginas
...emergency. The life of Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden night ; Eut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 880 páginas
...Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, "The heights by great raen reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companione slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning, just after the «un hml... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 páginas
...flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 páginas
...known, Are but gigantic flights 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. The heights by j*reat men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,... | |
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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. 
