 | 1866 - 836 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 bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 4 Nor deem the irrevocable past... | |
 | John A. Wallace - 1867 - 240 pages
...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 sudden...too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1867 - 414 pages
...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 sudden...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. I propose in a series of sketches... | |
 | John A. Wallace - 1867 - 296 pages
...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 sudden...too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...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 sudden flight...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. " Nor deem the irrevocable past... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, Hut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As... | |
 | 1867 - 788 pages
...can truly succeed in life. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudaen flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." It is by earnest, diligent and persevering labor, that great men stamp 36 Twilight Musing! [JANUARY.... | |
 | 1867 - 394 pages
...whence we may descry in the distance what is invisible to others, & sort of St. Augustine's ladder — " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern unseen before, The path to higher destinies. "f It is the morning that cometh... | |
 | 1928 - 480 pages
...commenced the work of the day. We are reminded of the statement of Longfellow: "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." Thoroughness was one of his traits. At sixteen years of age he was a surveyor of recognized ability.... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1868 - 714 pages
...Longfellow has beautifully said, in words which are familiar to every reader, — "The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Never was the truth of this maxim more fully verified than in the life of Prince... | |
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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. 
