 | 1882 - 450 sider
...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 sider
...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...discontents— Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design * That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine.... | |
 | 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 sider
...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 !... | |
 | 1859 - 868 sider
...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.... | |
 | 1858 - 788 sider
...Longfellow's lines J— " All common tilings, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Oar pleasures and our 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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 sider
...for those who, casting their bread upon the waters, find it after many days. PAMELA. STEP BY STEP. WE have not wings ; we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale or climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 sider
...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...our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 sider
...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...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; 298 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 sider
...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...our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine,... | |
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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. 
