 | Mary Charlotte Phillpotts - 1869 - 194 pages
...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 flight...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. RIVINGTONS $otti)on, (.Ox tori), anb 1869 CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE DREAMLAND . . I CHAPTER II THE HAY-FIELD... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1869 - 590 pages
...us, let us pray that our spiritual sight may be enlightened as regarde these things ; and then, — " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent, and downcast eyes. We may discern— unseen before — A path to higher destinies." E. CLIFFORD. A RECOLLECTION... | |
 | 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
...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 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... | |
 | 1870 - 612 pages
...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 attained by sudden flight,...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... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pages
...become living thoughts, one of which found exemplification in his own life : " The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight...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 - 596 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 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... | |
 | 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 bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 4 Nor deem the irrevocable past... | |
 | 1871 - 314 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...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,... | |
 | Mary Webster McClain - 1871 - 272 pages
...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 flight;...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.... | |
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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. 
