 | 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 hour 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the globe, Attendants on the spring. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SADJT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design. That makes another's... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...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...That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures, and our discontents— Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design * That makes... | |
 | 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 hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may asceud." Harlow, JEitex, 3. Poising events should remind... | |
 | 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
...swiftrushing current, and be seen no more! LONGFELLOW'S LATEST POEMS. THE LADDEE OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our...That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...prayer, That to quiet their troubled spirits He had sent this Ship of Air. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our...That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...practise. Every one is not called upon to have courage ; but every Christian is summoned to be patient. " Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 pages
...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...That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 pages
...upon our guilty conscience. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. BY HENRY W. LONGFKLLOW. SAINT AUGUSTINE 1 well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame I All common things — each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our... | |
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All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. 
