 | 1882 - 450 pages
...renown, The right of eminent domain. 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 distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear,... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...renown, The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we I iiive feet to scale and climb. By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before,... | |
 | 1858 - 788 pages
...rounds by which we may ascend. We hare not wings — we cannot soar; Bat we hare feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more, The cloudy summits of oar time. " ' 'My dear Miss Wyndham, pray don't run off with what I have said; really you go quite... | |
 | 1856 - 978 pages
...dis ened. Why ? CHAPTEE IV. " 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.'' Before the great gong had sounded its second si the next morning, Mr. Malford, contrary to his custom,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...Renown at of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...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.... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...feats or facts are accomplished. As Longfollow so happily says, in his " Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — •...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.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar— But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...The right of eminent domain 1 We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...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.... | |
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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. 
