| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal... | |
| James Roche - 1851 - 624 pages
...prey ?—But " He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. ****** Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending...his naked head; And thus reward the toils, which to these summits lead." Childe Harold, Canto iii. 45. For the direful rivalry of the contending factions... | |
| Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. Shakspeare. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. Te gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world,... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - Legislators - 1852 - 140 pages
...snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below : Though far above the sun of glory glow, • And far beneath the...thus reward the toils which to those summits led." Calumny and detraction emptied their vials upon him. But how glorious the change! He outlived malice... | |
| United States. Congress - Politicians - 1852 - 148 pages
...snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below : Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth...thus reward the toils which to those summits led." Calumny and detraction emptied their vials upon him. But how glorious the change! He outlived malice... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - Legislators - 1852 - 150 pages
...snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below : Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth...thus reward the toils which to those summits led." Calumny and detraction emptied their vials upon him. But how glorious the change! He outlived malice... | |
| United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - Legislators - 1852 - 150 pages
...those below: Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread. Bound him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests...thus reward the toils which to those summits led." Calumny and detraction emptied their vials upon him. But how glorious the change! He outlived malice... | |
| American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1852 - 690 pages
...those below, Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests...naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summit* led." The history of scientific men most painfully impresses us with the truth of these lines.... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1852 - 1034 pages
...the snn of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round are icy rocks, and londly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led." The history of scientific men most painfully impresses us with the truth of these lines. Gallileo,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itselC and rusts injuriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Matemal Nature... | |
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