 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.  Annual Report - Page 691876Full view - About this book
 | William M. Thayer - Boston (Mass.) - 1860 - 358 pages
...the wonderful transformation. It is true of him, as the poet has said of all distinguished men, — " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...Their solid 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, Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...lesson written " for our learning," that it may induce us to work while our day lasts, knowing that " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; Bat they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night," to prepare for the inevitable... | |
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...lesson written " for our learning," that it may induce ua to work while 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... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...feet, if we would gain, In the bright fields of fair renown, The right of eminent domain. LONGFELLOW. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...Their solid 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1861 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | Ellen Clacy - 1862 - 294 pages
...feet 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. * Nor deem th" irrevocable Past As whoDy wasted — wholly vain— If, rising... | |
 | Joseph Mullens - Missions - 1862 - 508 pages
...more, The cloudy summits of our time. " 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 period at which Mr Lacroix arrived in India was one of peculiar interest. The old system of exclusiveness,... | |
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