 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 sider
...It is for each one of us more or less to seek for a brighter hope, not to be baffled by failure, " Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." When Philip Neri was at one of the Italian universities there went to him a youth who told him with... | |
 | 1871 - 410 sider
...bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.' " " Does he really mean, then, that these failures and mistakes, these awful stumbles and perilous... | |
 | 1873 - 500 sider
...ever readiness of JESUS to welcome souls to Himself, would not doubt it for one moment. CHAPTER V. " Nor deem the irrevocable past, * As wholly wasted,...at last To something nobler we attain." LONGFELLOW. " ARE you going out now, Virginia ?" said Miss Brereton, putting her head into Evered's room one day.... | |
 | 1863 - 896 sider
...the failures of the past are of avail in fitting us for the responsibilies of the future. We need not deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. Some such thoughts were crowding our mind while we waited for the train during the first hours of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 sider
...bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. 300 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. CURFEW. SOLEMNLY, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew-bell Is beginning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 sider
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted —...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 sider
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted —...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain." Courage is the mission of the few ; patience is the duty of all. Be sure you are pursuing the right... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 sider
...eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable Fast As wholly wasted — wholly vain — If, rising on...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." Courage is the mission of the few ; patience is the duty of all. "Ye have need of patience" is as applicable... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 sider
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies. Nor deem the irrevocable past, As wholly wasted —...its wrecks, at last, To something nobler we attain. GRAHAM'S MAOAZIXE. LAST HOURS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE P. UPSHUR, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.* US FRIGATE CUMBERLAND,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 398 sider
...who believe, till the end of time. CHAPTER XVIII. THE BABEL BUILDERS; OR, UNSANCTIFIED JUDGMENTS. " Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted —...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." " And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let... | |
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The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, 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 discern — unseen... 
