 | Edwin Cortland Bolles - Bible - 1865 - 738 pages
...and he will requite ; Desert those that love thee, but never the right I Af)\ LMHW LONGFELLOW. Steps. have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright field of fair renown The right of eminent domain ! We have not wings, we...cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb By Blow degrees — by more and more— The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - Theology - 1866 - 560 pages
...we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread, Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' But then, " ' We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time,' " And this is just the business I have been engaged in. It was for this reason I could not better hear... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1866 - 836 pages
...thee, and he will requite; Desert those that love thee, but never the right ! LM LONGFELLOW. Steps. have not wings — we cannot soar— But we have feet...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their... | |
 | R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...we would gain In the bright field of fair 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 mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like... | |
 | 1867 - 806 pages
...unpromising beginnings. They did not attain to higher standing by a sudden bound, but step by step. " We have not wings — we cannot soar, But we have...more and more, The cloudy summits of our time." The history of nations and of those great enterprizes that have exerted a beneficial influence on large... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Ability - 1867 - 258 pages
...of chivalry are past. Sidney's high sense of honour may be yours, though not his eminent fortunes. ' We have not wings— we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb, By Blow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy Bummita of our time/'— LOSOKLLOW. 206 CONCLUDING REMARKS.... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...See " Scribimns" Tentando ad Trojam vencre Pelasgi. — By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy. " We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time." LONGFELLOW. See " Tu ne cede." Terfdo ossium cor sollicitum.—k troubled heart is a worm to the bones.... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Phillpotts - 1869 - 194 pages
...BY MC PHILLPOTTS AUTHOR OF "THE HILLFORO CONFIRMATION We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we fume 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 attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1870 - 596 pages
...This power to teach, this perfection in teaching, can only come by hard work and by incessant work. " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Aw but gigantic flights of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the... | |
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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. 
