 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.  Poems - 第148页作者：Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1882 - 450 页
...we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 页
...crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached, and kr.pt, Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to brighter destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, standing on its... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 页
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear...path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we... | |
 | Charles Greenwood - 1855 - 440 页
...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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 页
...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 732 页
...higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 1 Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | 1858 - 738 页
...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... | |
 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 页
...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 242 页
...action of the nobler will ; — All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night, n* Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
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