 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 144 Seiten
...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 - 1850 - 188 Seiten
...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 - 1850 - 184 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1852 - 406 Seiten
...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 - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...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 - 1852 - 250 Seiten
...; 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... | |
 | 1853 - 560 Seiten
...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. iarte in The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its valleys green Snatched... | |
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Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb.... 
