...have feet 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...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.'" " And all the many, many failures, the great number of ' dead and wounded ' you spoke of just now....

...with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' LONGFELLOW. ^HERE was no twittering of birds to wake Violet next morning ; but little Lilla had crept...

...his works survive him. His name is his monument, and his writings are AM memorial. " The height«, by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by...their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."—'Longfel'o«. e ^aht jof (Smtba. y HINKING it may Ъе interesting to many of our readers...

...doing, is worth doing well. No man alive has furnished a more fitting illustration of the lines— " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." Every sentence which Dr. Caird utters in his discourses is turned and polished...

...nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To...

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

...Thereafter she went to bed at ten. This was, however, the first cutting trial of her intellectual life. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." " And as I am incapable of toiling in the night," said Hally, with a whimsically literal interpretation,...

...the top, as I have, "commented Billy Bliven, vivaciously. " It reminds me," Adolphus murmured, " that the heights by great men reached and kept were not...companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." The young men glared at him, but one of the girls whispered to the others : " Isn't he lovely ?" "...

...one.' There have, indeed, been loving responses to that last ' Good-night.' CHAPTER X. Wyt Surarait. THE heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. LOXGFELLOW. IT is customary to compare the biographies of the Bible with those contained in other books,...

...knowledge of heaven by the spasmodic efforts, or the specially fervent desires, of an hour or a year. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." 1 We might be taken up with the indolent pleasures of the world, engrossed by...