| Christian life - 1882 - 452 pages
...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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design.... | |
| 1871 - 410 pages
...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 day's events 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... | |
| Literature - 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. CHAPTER I. — MICIIAELMAS DAISIES.... | |
| 1862
...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... | |
| English literature - 1858 - 786 pages
...but that is no release from responsibility. Do you know Longfellow's lines J— " All common tilings, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end,...discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. We hare not wings — we cannot soar; Bat we hare feet to scale and climb By slow degrees — by more... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...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 by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...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 by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1854 - 592 pages
...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 by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base... | |
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