 | 1882 - 450 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, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...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 too long... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 too long... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...emergency. The life of Napoleon presents the most striking illustration of the truth of the sentiment, " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden night ; Eut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...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 too long... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 pages
...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 too long... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - 382 pages
...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 - 264 pages
...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 hi the night. Standing on what too long... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...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 too long... | |
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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. 
