 | 1882 - 450 pages
...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 pages
...WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SADJT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread...That makes another's virtues less: The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess: The longing for ignoble things: The strife for triumph more... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1878 - 892 pages
...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 ! How... | |
 | 1859 - 868 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...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 we will but tread...revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 we will but tread...the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; 298 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...but every Christian is summoned to be patient. " Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread...revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1853 - 212 pages
...called upon to have courage ; but every Christian is summoned to be patient, to labour and to wait. rf The low desire— the base design, That makes another's...revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread...revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess 1 . The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than iruth, The hardening of the heart,... | |
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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... 
