 The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As...  The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other Poems - 第122页作者：Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1901 - 142 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 页
...But we have feet to scale or climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the sides, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 页
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 页
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | 1851 - 608 页
...feats or facts are accomplished. As Longfollow so happily says, in his " Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 页
...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,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 页
...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — • The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 页
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 页
...have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 页
...it. We see the glory that is entered, but we are ignorant of the toils which must have preceded it. " The mighty pyramids of stone, That wedge-like cleave...stairs. " The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
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