 | 1882 - Страниц: 450
...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 - Страниц: 410
...•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 Beneath our feet 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 - Страниц: 892
...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... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 492
...injustice of all. CHAPTER IV. " 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." LONGFELLOW. IU I.IMI returned to Barnevale with a new purpose in his mind, and the effect of that purpose... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - Страниц: 596
...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 Beneath our feet 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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1854 - Страниц: 592
...SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread 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 1 . The longing for ignoble... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - Страниц: 308
...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 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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - Страниц: 566
...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 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... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 794
...AUGUSTINE. BY HENRT W. LONGFELLOW. SAINT ATTGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet 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,... | |
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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... 
