 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. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen...  The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems - Page 126by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 215 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John A. Wallace - Publishers and publishing - 1867 - 240 pages
...attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. . Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.' II. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. ' Train up a child in the way he should go ; and when he is old, he will not... | |
 | John A. Wallace - Publishers and publishing - 1867 - 296 pages
...attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.' II. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. ' Train up a child in the way he should go ; and when he is old, he will not... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1867 - 788 pages
...attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore, With shoulders...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." CRITICISING PREACHING. — I never suffer myself to criticise it, but always act upon the uniform principle... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." ' 1 Longfellow. 120 CHAPTER VIII. STRENGTH AND GENTLENESS. A POPULAR misconception of the Christian... | |
 | African Americans - 1867 - 394 pages
...whence we may descry in the distance what is invisible to others, & sort of St. Augustine's ladder — " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern unseen before, The path to higher destinies. "f It is the morning that cometh with Africa — not the night, the long... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - English essays - 1867 - 414 pages
...attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. I propose in a series of sketches to introduce... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 pages
...attained by sudden flight, Hut they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern—unseen before— A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent...— unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Xor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 252 pages
...irrevoeahle Past, А s wholly wasted, wholly vain, If. rising on its wreeks, at last To something nohler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old Colonial time, May he fonnd in prose the legend U liat is here set down in rhyme. A ship «tiled from New Haven, And the... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1869 - 590 pages
...us, let us pray that our spiritual sight may be enlightened as regarde these things ; and then, — " Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent,...discern— unseen before — A path to higher destinies." E. CLIFFORD. A RECOLLECTION OF CHILDHOOD. Iv is more than fifty years ago. I was a child then; I am... | |
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