 | Christian life - 1882 - 450 pages
...bastions 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 Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...aspire — may it not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...foreheads 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, Were toiling upward in the night, Standing on what too long we bore With... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, 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. Standing on what too long we bore With... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...foreheads 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, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 614 pages
...foreheads 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, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 308 pages
...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE.... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 pages
...the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by j*reat men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 316 pages
...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. " So heights by good men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE.... | |
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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. 
