 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 ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds...  The Arena - Sayfa 1471895Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1882 - 450 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 410 sayfa
...Augustine t well hast thou said, That of pur vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. All common things— each...low desire, the base design * That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine. And all occasions of excess. All thoughts of ill— all... | |
 | 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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 - 596 sayfa
...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 ! All common things — each...low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; 298 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 sayfa
...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 ! All common things — each...low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 sayfa
...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) All common things — each...low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 592 sayfa
...AUGUSTINE ! well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! All common things — each...low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess 1 . The longing for ignoble... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - 614 sayfa
...That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame I All common things — each day's events, That with...low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine, And all occasions of excess ! The longing for ignoble things,... | |
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