 | 1882 - Počet stránok 450
...renown, The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb, 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 pathways that appear,... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 410
...renown, The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we I iiive feet to scale and climb. By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before,... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 788
...rounds by which we may ascend. We hare not wings — we cannot soar; Bat we hare feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more, The cloudy summits of oar time. " ' 'My dear Miss Wyndham, pray don't run off with what I have said; really you go quite... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 978
...dis ened. Why ? CHAPTEE IV. " We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time.'' Before the great gong had sounded its second si the next morning, Mr. Malford, contrary to his custom,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - Počet stránok 596
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - Počet stránok 308
...Renown at of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 608
...feats or facts are accomplished. As Longfollow so happily says, in his " Ladder of St. Augustine :" " The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Perhaps, indeed, it maybe safely concluded that all instances of original greatness aro more the expression... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - Počet stránok 212
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — •...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are cross'd by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - Počet stránok 566
...The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings — we cannot soar— But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that nprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - Počet stránok 592
...The right of eminent domain 1 We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more and more — The...of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise.... | |
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We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. 
