 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 pages
...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." In this character-building, we can help each other. For, in the " Psalm of Life," he sings : • —... | |
 | Frederic T. Gammon - 1881 - 184 pages
...future necessities. How this was accomplished, we shall relate in the next chapter. CHAPTER VII. tip. " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." R. GARFIELD — for such we must term him now — had reached the height of his ambition ; at least... | |
 | 1881 - 696 pages
...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." In this character-building, we can help each other. For, in the " Psalm of Life," he sings : — "... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...grieved to hear the criticism, "That poetry is very stiff. Besides, it is borrowed, every word." 22. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 23. Recitation — "Excelsior." 24. Among the world's favorite poems are his, — "The Village Blacksmith,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 474 pages
...aspirations, the same indecision. A thousand things had been planned, and none completed. KAVANAGH. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. THE LADDEE OF ST. AUGUSTINE. And though the warrior's sun has set, Its light shall linger round us... | |
 | 1881 - 796 pages
...INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. 65 A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. * * * * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. * * * # Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks at last,... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1882 - 402 pages
...patient, unceasing effort. No one ever did. In the words of the poet who has just passed away : — " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." Such toil, however, is far sweeter than ignoble rest. There is no higher joy than the consciousness... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pages
...recurring strain — an inspiration to noble ambition and action — in 'The Ladder of St. Augustine.' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. There is nothing of the comic element in Longfellow's lyrics. He does not seek to provoke our laughter.... | |
 | Thomas P. Pemberton - 1882 - 144 pages
...offence;" who have moved or retarded the wheels of improvement for centuries. Certain it is that — " The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." In order to feel the full force of a precept or principle, we must see it exemplified in a life—see... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1882 - 624 pages
...Journal by an Italian gentleman, a pupil of Condorcet, who was present at the interview at M. Neckar's. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." One cloudless morning, just after the sun had risen, he was sauntering along by the sea-shore, in solitary... | |
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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. 
