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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... "
Poems, selected from the best editions - Page 187
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany

1882 - 452 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...
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The Church

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...
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The Church

1878 - 898 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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

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....
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 vices...the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; 298 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth,...
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The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 4

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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Teacher, Volume 8

1855 - 396 pages
...polished after the similitude of a palace." THE LADDER OP ST. AUGUSTINE. BY HENKT W. LONGFELLOW. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Aie rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another's virtues less,...
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The Newchurchman, devoted to the exposition and defence of the ..., Volumes 1-3

1855 - 446 pages
...thoughts of ill ; Whatever hinders or impedes The aetion of the nobler will ; All eommon things, — eaeh day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures, and our diseontents, Are " rounds," by whieh we may aseend. The distant mountains, that uprear Their frowning...
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The Lover's Seat: Kathemérina; Or, Common Things in Relation to Beauty ...

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...dreams of youth ! " Channing. So, by a like process, in seizing the familiar occasions of goodness — " All common things — each day's events, That with...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend *." You ask perhaps, admitting that they have a certain value, why we are so greatly, so immoderately...
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Northwode priory, by the author of 'Everley'.

Cornish - 1857 - 362 pages
...and amusement seemed to be penetrating her natural reserve. CHAPTEE IX. '' All common things—each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures, and oar discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. " We have not wings—we cannot soarBut we have...
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