 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...flights 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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 310 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...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. Standing on what... | |
 | American literature - 1851 - 334 pages
...foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. Tlie heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Win-« toiling upward iu the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 1482 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." CHAPTER III. THE TRANSLATED ONE. And after he was dead and gone, And e'en his memory dim, Earth seemed... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 794 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...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... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 830 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...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... | |
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by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. 
