 | Christian life - 1882 - 450 pages
...more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear,...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...while their companions slept, Were toiling upward hi the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern,... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - Sunday schools - 1855 - 440 pages
...entered his room at that dead hour, — and he pursued his object until he accomplished his purpose. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." All that God, Providence, and men can do for an individual will be ineffectual -without himself, his... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted, for it is a general... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1858 - 732 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. ' The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear...great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 pages
...wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." t * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii. 29. t Miles Standish and other Poems,... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 738 pages
...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 242 pages
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, n* Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed with pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise....companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." * " To secure to the old that influence which they are willing to claim, and which might so much contribute... | |
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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. 
