...Their frowning foreheads to the skies, Are crossed by pathways that appear As we to higher levels rise. The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.' One more example of homely doctrine in a pleasing poetical dress must be quoted,...

...to higher levels rise. • ' Gabriel.' By Bessie Rayner Parkes. J. Chapman, t Longfellow. The hcighU by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight; Bat they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too long...

...we have f'eet 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...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." In a country like America men of sound minds, who recognise in the family the great constituent element...

...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ' Standing on what too long we bore With shou Iders bent and downcast eyes, We...

...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...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." t * Sermons by John Henry Newman, p. 65. Rivington. t John viii. 29. t Miles...

...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination...

...an example of heroic, victorious conquest of self, and adverse circumstances, and the moral : — " The heights, by great men reached and kept, Were not...sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED FEMALE SINGERS.* THE irresistible charm and fascination exercised by a melodious...

...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by path-ways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. ' The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden Sight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Standing on what too...

...we have 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...companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of St. Augustine. L To be young — to be twenty years old — to have no aches,...

...we have 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...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...