 | John Clifford - 1874 - 204 sider
...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...discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. 1 Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | 1874 - 844 sider
...— may it not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be I Punch. A PLEA. The heights of ffrent men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way,... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 sider
...distant 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...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen beforu — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain,... | |
 | 1871 - 586 sider
...to the skiei Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights, by groat men reached and kept. Were not attained by sudden...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyei. We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - 1875 - 400 sider
...with the hour begin and end; Our pleasures and our discontents — Are rounds by which we may ascend. The heights by great men reached and kept. Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. HEAVENLY Father, who hast kindly awakened us to renewed life, as we go forth this day, may a lively... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - 1875 - 382 sider
...sentence, noun clause; and analyse : To bliss domestic he his heart resigned. 8. Analyse the following : The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. JUNIOR CANDIDATES, 1872. 3. English Grammar. [NB Every student is required to satisfy the examiners... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1875 - 958 sider
...generation. In his career there was a beautiful exemplification of the familiar words of Longfellow u The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." Finishing his academic course, and with no assistance but from his own energies, he entered the law... | |
 | 1876 - 710 sider
...singular of swine, ties, spies ; the comparative and superlative of far, ill, funny. 3. Analyse — The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 4. In the following sentences, parse the words in italics : Give me that large book that you have in... | |
 | David Barker - 1876 - 262 sider
...understand he lives there still, Near Guppy's, on the old cross road, A nearer cut to Bunker's Hill : "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." In singing of the great man's climb, Longfellow's words were plain and true ; 37 Now back to my Almira... | |
 | 1876 - 384 sider
...attained by sudden flight, [kept But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. 3 Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 4 Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If. rising on its wrecks, at last,... | |
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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... 
