 | 1882 - 450 דפים
...reserved for great actions only. We need our hero-strength for our hourly thoughts and words and deeds. " All common things, each day's events, That with the...begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents Are steps by which we may ascend. All thoughts of ill ; all evil deeds That have their root in thoughts... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 דפים
...the spring. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SADJT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design. That makes another's virtues less: The revel of the ruddy wine, And... | |
 | 1871 - 410 דפים
...Longfellow's on — •THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Saint Augustine t well hast thou said, That of pur vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread...discontents— Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design * That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine.... | |
 | 1862
...common, profane : look at life through the medium of Christ, and it will appear holy, sacred, divine. " All common things, each day's events That with the...pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may asceud." Harlow, JEitex, 3. Poising events should remind ut of our future destiny. — It was because... | |
 | 1859 - 868 דפים
...surely the pleasant*«! way To get rid of the bill and the dunning. BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL." AH common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Oar pleasures and our discontents, Arc rounds by which we may ascend. LONGFELLOW, St. Augustine's Ladder.... | |
 | 1878 - 892 דפים
...analogy, paving over the mud with the crushed brambles, we may thus escape the ill effects of both. " Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend.'' THE SAVIOUR'S LAST WOEDS. LURE xxiv. 44-53. How precious to us are the last words of one we love !... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 דפים
...seen no more! LONGFELLOW'S LATEST POEMS. THE LADDEE OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 דפים
...spirits He had sent this Ship of Air. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; 298 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 דפים
...to have courage ; but every Christian is summoned to be patient. " Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 דפים
...guilty conscience. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine,... | |
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SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame... 
