 | 1852 - 880 páginas
...Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, "The heights by great raen reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companione slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning, just after the «un hml... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 páginas
...Their frowning 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...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 - 1853 - 212 páginas
...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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 páginas
...frowning 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...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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 páginas
...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...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 - 1854 - 308 páginas
...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. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 páginas
...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. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 páginas
...DESIGNED AS INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY. BY JOHN G. EJDGAR, AOTHOR OF "THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN." The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden Jligni, Hut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LONGFELLOW. Ellustratfons.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 páginas
...frowning 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...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 before,... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - 1855 - 440 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
