| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOURGLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...Standing in these walls of Time, — Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. YOUNO thoughts have music in them : — love And happiness their theme. I HAVE seen change... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 188 pages
...for the youthful moot court and a prefatory letter of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIBT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place.'* — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 184 pages
...of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIRT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a tinu and ample base ; And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place," — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Standing in these walls of time ; Broken stair-ways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. LONGFELLOW. XXXIII. THE LABOURER. " IT is an encouraging circumstance that the respect for labour is... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| Elisha Reynolds Potter - Education - 1852 - 406 pages
...incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stair-ways where the feet Stumble, as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain And one boundless reach of sky. LESSOiNS ON OBJECTS. The following letter from Professor Jaeger, whose lectures on Natural History... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...; Leave no yawning gap between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. 5. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky. SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOURGLASS. A HANDFUL of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,... | |
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