 | 1869 - 908 pages
...spheres of thought and labour. Eat yarn motto be "Excelsior!" The heighta by great men reached and kepi. Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Wen toiling ward to I/a wifkH 22(3 April 10, 1869.] 227 .Jgaculttual (^operation, and the Rational... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks,... | |
 | 1870 - 614 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. 3 Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 4 Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If, rising on... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pages
...thoughts, one of which found exemplification in his own life : " The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." AF The Autobiography of a Coin. V. reader, you, in all probability, have been led to a perusal of this... | |
 | 1870 - 612 pages
...— by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while...companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. 3 Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | 1870 - 596 pages
...crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Went toiling upward in the night." Teachers, it is not written, " Be ye followers of them who, on the... | |
 | 1871 - 314 pages
...by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. • The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks,... | |
 | Mary Webster McClain - 1871 - 272 pages
...degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.'" " And all the many, many failures, the great number of ' dead and wounded ' you spoke of just now.... | |
 | Winifred Taylor - 1871 - 362 pages
...and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' LONGFELLOW. ^HERE was no twittering of birds to wake Violet next morning ; but little Lilla had crept... | |
 | 1871 - 868 pages
...name is his monument, and his writings are AM memorial. " The height«, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, -while...their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."—'Longfel'o«. e ^aht jof (Smtba. y HINKING it may Ъе interesting to many of our readers... | |
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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. 
