 | 1882 - 686 páginas
...recurring strain — an inspiration to noble ambition and action — in 'The Ladder of St. Augustine.' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. There is nothing of the comic element in Longfellow's lyrics. He does not seek to provoke our laughter.... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 páginas
...Taste the joy That springs from labor. k. LONGFELLOW — Masque of Pandora. Pt. VI. 'In the (¿arden. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. /. LONUFELLOW — The Lttddvr of St. Augustine. But now my task is smoothly done, I c»n fly, or I... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 páginas
...patient, unceasing effort. No one ever did. In the words of the poet who has just passed away : — " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." Such toil, however, is far sweeter than ignoble rest. There is no higher joy than the consciousness... | |
 | Granville series - 1882 - 330 páginas
...frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. 1 0. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 11. Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1882 - 624 páginas
...Journal by an Italian gentleman, a pupil of Condorcet, who was present at the interview at M. Neckar's. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning, just after the sun had risen, he was sauntering along by the sea-shore, in solitary... | |
 | Thomas P. Pemberton - 1882 - 144 páginas
...offence;" who have moved or retarded the wheels of improvement for centuries. Certain it is that — " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." In order to feel the full force of a precept or principle, we must see it exemplified in a life—see... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 528 páginas
...realms benighted, As they onward bear the message ! THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTIN КSAIXT AüotrsTiNE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame...upward in the night. Standing on what too long we Ъоге With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern • — unseen before A path to higher... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 páginas
...events, That with the hour begin and end Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which wemay ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Wre may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 544 páginas
...their root in thoughts of ill ; Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will ; — 4.ll these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet,...upward in the night. Standing on what too long we Vx>re With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before A path to higher destinies.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 páginas
...unintelligible now : perhaps hereafter it will be all plain. — Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, July z, 1881. The mighty pyramids of Stone That wedge-like cleave...before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the 1rrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last, To something nobler... | |
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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. 
