 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1876 - 344 pages
...talents, industry will improve them ; if moderate abilities, it will supply their deficiencies." " The heights, by great men reached, and kept, Were...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." — LONGFELLOW. WILLIAM OVEEEND PKIESTLEY, MD— This eminent physician, still... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. THRODORR PARKRR. Self-improvement.] XXV. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. LONGFRLLOW : Ladder of St. Augustine. ScAnals.] XXVL Jails and state prisons... | |
 | 1876 - 358 pages
...summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and Were not attained by sudden 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 eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | 1877 - 600 pages
...to scale and climb ' By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The heighths by great men, reached and kept Were not attained by...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... | |
 | William Howse Groser - 1877 - 304 pages
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear, As we to higher levels rise. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." REFERENCES. " The Teacher : his Books and How to Read Them," a Lecture, by WH Groser. Blacket's " Young... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 212 pages
...skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. ST. AUGUSTINE'S LADDER. I7 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eye?, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past... | |
 | Peter J. Gomes - 2009 - 386 pages
...Wadsworth Longfellow entitled "The Ladder of St. Augustine," which includes these cautionary lines: The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by suddenßight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ' William James,... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...belonged to the optimist. - Harold Wilkins The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not obtained by sudden flight But they, while their companions...discern - unseen before, A path to higher destinies. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving,... | |
 | Michael Corcoran - 2007 - 217 pages
...shot an 85, beating defensive back coach Warren Powers by two strokes and Tom Osborne by three. NINE The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Ladder of St. Augustine" Nebraska opened defense of its national... | |
 | Madabhushini Narasimhacharya - 2004 - 58 pages
...conclude this saga of the sage Ramanuja by quoting the following verse from an English poet, Longfellow: 'The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." (The Ladder of St. Augustine) Appendix / ?ft: II 30 Hill Hill SSJUM rRT ^ c: $T?T ft • ' (^ & 2-3-65)... | |
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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... 
