 | 1859 - 300 pàgines
...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 ; But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | John Cumming - 1859 - 354 pàgines
...When nearer seen and better known Are but gigantic flights of stair. The heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." I have very little faith in genius ; I think it is after all chiefly toil and drudgery that will make... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pàgines
...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 ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling iipward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 320 pàgines
...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, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of St. Augustine. L To be young — to be twenty years... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1860 - 358 pàgines
...true of him, as the poet has said of all distinguished men, — " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." And now, ere the youthful reader closes this volume, let him stop and resolve to imitate the bright... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pàgines
...our day lasts, knowing that " 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," to prepare for the inevitable hour when we too, ripe or unripe, must be bound up in the sheaf of Death,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pàgines
...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,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. . Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes We may discern — unseen... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pàgines
...bright fields of fair renown, The right of eminent domain. LONGFELLOW. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LONGFELLOW. His fame on all the winds had flown; His words had shaken crypt and throne; Like fire,... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1861 - 342 pàgines
...out and use. And this is not less true of godly men ; the heights which they reached were won "Not by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.™ "3d, January 1847. — When obliged to be much occupied with others, a few minutes stolen for communion... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pàgines
...that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reach'd and kept, Were not attain'd by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 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. 
