 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 pages
...fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more aud more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty...of stairs. The distant mountains that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skiei Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The... | |
 | Douglas William Freshfield - 1875 - 450 pages
...as Switzerland can nowhere rival. CHAPTER XI. THE BEENTA GEOUP.i The mighty pyramids of stone Which wedgelike cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen...and better known Are but gigantic flights of stairs. — LONOPRU.OW. VAL DI BRKOTA — BOCCA DEI CAMOZZI — VAL AOOLA — PA9SO D AVBIES VAL DI SOLH—... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - 1875 - 400 pages
...years and old age of the unrighteous. WE have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. All common things — each day's events, That with the hour begin and end; Our pleasures and our discontents... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1876 - 446 pages
...the rest of the ridge. The mighty pyramids of stone, Tlmt, wedge-like, cleave the desert nirs, U'lien nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights...pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. From the Notch, the ascent of Mount Washington is made by mounting gradually the steps of Clinton,... | |
 | 1876 - 384 pages
...of sin. 4JU buNUFEU.OW. Step». 1 WE have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and Were not attained by sudden flight, [kept But they while their... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...and hand it to the wistful poor. " We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more. The cloudy summits of our time." CHAPTER V. THE VALUE OF ENTHUSIASM. Nothing is so contagious as Enthusiasm ; it is the real allegory... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale ertram cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reach 'd and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow decrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time....When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic nights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uproar Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed... | |
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We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. 
