 | 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... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 pages
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...Beneath our feet, if we would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their... | |
 | Rush Rhees Shippen - 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
...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 slow degrees — by more aud more — The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave... | |
 | Douglas William Freshfield - 1875 - 450 pages
...as Switzerland can nowhere rival. CHAPTER XI. THE BEENTA GEOUP.i The mighty pyramids of stone Which wedgelike cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen...and better known Are but gigantic flights of stairs. — LONOPRU.OW. VAL DI BRKOTA — BOCCA DEI CAMOZZI — VAL AOOLA — PA9SO D AVBIES VAL DI SOLH—... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 162 pages
...cannot find the good I seek, Because I feel and fear the wrong ! The Golden Legend DECEMBER TWENTY-NINTH We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet...better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. TAf LaJUtr tf St. Augustine Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising... | |
 | 1906 - 1026 pages
...with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet...by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time." Sent early to school, from twelve to fifteen years of age he had for his tutor a young theological... | |
 | 1906 - 642 pages
...with the hour begin and end. Our pleasures and our discontents. Are rounds by which we may ascend. We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet...by more and more. The cloudy summits of our time." Sent early to school, from twelve to fifteen years of age he had for his tutor a young theological... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 204 pages
...familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured (aces. \Y/E have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet...by more and more. The cloudy summits of our time. C"IXED his eyes upon her, as the saint of his deepest devotion. Happy was he who might touch her hand... | |
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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. 
