 | James Stephen Jeans - 1872 - 212 sider
...doing, is worth doing well. No man alive has furnished a more fitting illustration of the lines— " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Every sentence which Dr. Caird utters in his discourses is turned and polished... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1872 - 272 sider
...day, and at times far into the night. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." And no one can ever hope to attain unto eminence without the constant upward toiling. " One day, —... | |
 | 1872 - 692 sider
...that the greatest trinmphs of IHUHU.U eilbrt have been done "by slow degrees, by more and more. ' " The heights by great men reached and kept, , Were not attained by si i'luen flight, But they, while their coi 'pau'ons lept, Were toiling upwards in I'"- night." SIR... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 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 attained by sndden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 360 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...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 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...upward in the night. Standing on what too long we boro With shoulders bent aud downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies.... | |
 | Edward Carey Pike - 1873 - 144 sider
...one.' There have, indeed, been loving responses to that last ' Good-night.' CHAPTER X. Wyt Surarait. THE heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LOXGFELLOW. IT is customary to compare the biographies of the Bible with those contained in other books,... | |
 | 1898 - 1042 sider
...the top, as I have, "commented Billy Bliven, vivaciously. " It reminds me," Adolphus murmured, " that the heights by great men reached and kept were not...companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." The young men glared at him, but one of the girls whispered to the others : " Isn't he lovely ?" "... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 820 sider
...Thereafter she went to bed at ten. This was, however, the first cutting trial of her intellectual life. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." " And as I am incapable of toiling in the night," said Hally, with a whimsically literal interpretation,... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - 1873 - 364 sider
...knowledge of heaven by the spasmodic efforts, or the specially fervent desires, of an hour or a year. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." 1 We might be taken up with the indolent pleasures of the world, engrossed by... | |
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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... 
