 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 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...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Carey Pike - 1873 - 144 pages
...recognized by those who would follow. ' 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.' In climbing a mountain sometime ago, I remember the steepness did not tax the strength so much as the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 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...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... | |
 | John Clifford - 1874 - 204 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. ' Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before,... | |
 | George Gill (schoolmaster.) - 1874 - 170 pages
...as you can the following verse: — We have not wings, we caunot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time." — LONGFELLOW. RELATIVE PRONOUNS. „ 1. The Relative who is thus inflected in both Numbers and three... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 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...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 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...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more aud more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty...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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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. 
