 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1873 - 476 pages
...honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth — 'Tis but a name. Tentando ad Trojam venere Pelasgi — We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, and more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. MACAULAY. Pro aris et focis — How can man do better... | |
 | Edwin Courtland Bolles - Hymns, English - 1873 - 830 pages
...thee, and he will requite ; Desert those that love thee, but never the right I LM LONGFELLOW. Steps. E have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb x^\ \ \\7" TT By slow degrees — by more and more — v The cloudy summits of our time. 2 The heights... | |
 | John Clifford - 1874 - 204 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | George Gill (schoolmaster.) - 1874 - 170 pages
...us, me, her, him. 3. Parse as fully as you can the following verse: — We have not wings, we caunot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb By slow...more and more — The cloudy summits of our time." — LONGFELLOW. RELATIVE PRONOUNS. „ 1. The Relative who is thus inflected in both Numbers and three... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - Devotional exercises - 1875 - 400 pages
...which are living : and youth that is soon perfected, the many years and old age of the unrighteous. WE have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. All common things — each day's events, That with the hour begin and end; Our pleasures and our discontents... | |
 | 1871 - 586 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...feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more aud more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 314 pages
...Like Sidney, we may take away the cup from our own thirsty lips, and hand it to the wistful poor. " We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have...by more and more. The cloudy summits of our time." CHAPTER V. THE VALUE OF ENTHUSIASM. Nothing is so contagious as Enthusiasm ; it is the real allegory... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1876 - 358 pages
...Saviour, God, When the salvation reigns within, And grace subdues the power of sin. Slept. LOXOFXI.LOW. 1 WE 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 Were not attained by sudden flight, [kept But they while their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1877 - 400 pages
.../Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. VI » have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave thedesert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant... | |
 | Free thought - 1877 - 604 pages
...triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth ; We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet...more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The heighths by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions... | |
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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. 
