| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 188 trang
...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...Shall to-morrow find its place.'* — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended, and at... | |
| 1850 - 144 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 184 trang
...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, and at... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 trang
...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 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain, To those turrets where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain And one boundless... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 258 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 trang
...; 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 trang
...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...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
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