...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...

...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...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,...

...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.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted, for it is a general...

...what we slight than by what we fear. " 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." THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. — It is not generally known that the completion of this bridge was effected...

...to higher levels rise. • ' Gabriel.' By Bessie Rayner Parkes. J. Chapman, t Longfellow. The hcighU by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; Bat they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long...

...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,...

...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, 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 shou Iders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...

...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...

...we have f'eet to 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...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." In a country like America men of sound minds, who recognise in the family the...

...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious...