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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. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... "
Platt's essays - Page 58
by James Platt - 1883
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Church Harmonies: A Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Use of Congregations

1876 - 384 pages
...flight, [kept But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. 3 Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. 4 Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If. rising on its wrecks, at last,...
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Peloubet's Select Notes on the International Bible Lessons for ..., Volume 39

1913 - 416 pages
...That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ' Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly...vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something noble we attain." A STEP UPWARD/ Thus to Abraham this experience became a step upward both morally...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Reprinted from the Revised ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. I 312 PROMETHEUS, OR THE POET'S FORETHOUGHT. OF Prometheus, how undaunted On Olympus' shining bastions...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on of woe. — Parncll. There oft is found an avarice...on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly — Longftllw. 1121. EXCELLENCE. Cost of No good of worth sublime will Heaven permit To light on man...
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Through the breakers, Volume 1

Richard Bulkeley (novelist.) - 1877 - 308 pages
...and he quoted to him the concluding lines of Longfellow's ladder of S. Augustine — " Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders bent, and downcast...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." " There, that is what I should call the only right way not to cry over spilt milk." CHAPTER XIV. A...
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The poets' year, a birthday register with selections from Chaucer to Longfellow

Poets - 1877 - 300 pages
...echo reaches us. Admiral Hood, 1724. The Spanish Student. Jbtlimbitj 1l. Jb^tttïreij 12. Standing ou what too long we bore, With shoulders bent and downcast...wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To some thing nobler we attain. Ueau Stanley, 1815. 'J'he Ladaer of St. Augustine. r 14., All is of God....
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The Truth Seeker Collection of Forms, Hymns, and Recitations: Original and ...

1877 - 600 pages
...sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast...discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies.— Longfellow. CM AN offering to the shrine of power Our hands shall never bring; A garland on the car...
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyesj We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Pastj As wholly wasted, wholly vam, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain....
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The Longfellow birthday book, arranged by C. Dixon

Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pages
...dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. The Builders. November 14. November -t, Nocember 16. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. The Ladder of Si. Augustine. . November 17. Let not the illusion of thy senses Betray thee to deadly...
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The Brudenells of Brude

Emma Jane Worboise - 1878 - 630 pages
...to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. ' Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." iLonfion : JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 & 14, FLEET STREET. HODDEB & STOUGHTON, 27 & 31, PATEBNO8TER ROW....
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