 | Harriet Parr - 1862 - 426 sider
...we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Might, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The... | |
 | 1862 - 412 sider
...all men of eminent abilities, in all ages, it may be said: " The eminence they reached and kept, Was not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night " Every man must go over the same ground, experieence the same toil, struggle... | |
 | 1862 - 830 sider
...result of severe appHcation, painstaking thought, undaunted energy. A modern poet truly says : — " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by euddcn flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." They did... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 sider
...only attained by the same hard work, the same intense study which Hood and others have had to undergo. "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." On the establishment of his health, Hood returned to London, and was apprenticed to an engraver. At... | |
 | Russel Elliot - 1863 - 208 sider
... 600087070S WORDS FOR WORKERS: EUSSEL ELLIOT. ' The heights by great men reached and kept "Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." LONGFELLOW. LONDON: JOHN F. SHAW & CO., 48, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW ; WAKREN HALL... | |
 | David Thomas - 1864 - 756 sider
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are croaked by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept Were toiling upward in the night." But this progress is not only slow and toilsome — III. It is CERTAIN. "They yo from strength to strength."... | |
 | 1864 - 876 sider
...superabundance of brain deposited inside their cranium by the liberal hand of their Maker. '• The bights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night" Ik Marvel says: "There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity. You will learn... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1865 - 976 sider
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bunt and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. I propose... | |
 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - 1865 - 734 sider
...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...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... | |
 | 1866 - 836 sider
...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...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... | |
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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... 
