...By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."1 And we do not need philosophy to tell us that this life is very short. Christianity assures...

...aspire — may it not be all vainly — As good as poor Joey to be ! Punch. A PLEA. The heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. — Longfellow. ALAS ! for those companions who have slept Upon that weary way,...

...Abernethy, " it is open to that objection." GAIN BY TOIL. LONGFELLOW. ÍTE heights by great men reached ar,d kept Were not attained by sudden flight } But they,...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. FLOWERS. MAItV HUWITT. GOD might h:ive made the earth bring forth Enough for great ami small } The...

...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear...while their companions slept, Were toiling upward hi the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern,...

...entered his room at that dead hour, — and he pursued his object until he accomplished his purpose. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." All that God, Providence, and men can do for an individual will be ineffectual -without himself, his...

...known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted, for it is a general...

...nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic Sights of stairs. ' The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...the night. ' Standing on what too long we bore With shou Iders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies....

...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious...

...wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." t * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii. 29. t Miles Standish and other Poems,...

...we have f'eet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more The cloudy summits of our time The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." In a country like America men of sound minds, who recognise in the family the...