 | 1882 - 450 strani
...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, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 strani
...gigantic 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 sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 strani
...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 attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, Standing on what... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 880 strani
...the immense drafts which, in the future, were to be made upon his mind, he could not have consecrated himself with more sleepless energy, to prepare for...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,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 strani
...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 attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 strani
...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 attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 strani
...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 strani
...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 attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - 1855 - 440 strani
...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 attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." All that God, Providence,... | |
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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. 
