 | 1862 - 568 pages
...Tennyson's idea expressed. I give the irat two stanzas : — " 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... | |
 | 1862 - 606 pages
...Tennyson's idea expressed. I give the first two stanzas : — "Saint Augustine! well hast tbon 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder,'5 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...onward bear the message ! 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 deed of shame ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour be<>in and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...had sent this Ship of Air. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SA.INT 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...onward bear the message ! 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 deed of shame ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...they onward bear the message ! 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 deed of shame ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...governed his household. THE LADDER OF SAINT 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... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 pages
...many of them, and is trying hard to outgrow others. " ' 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 ! ' But then, " ' We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees,... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...falter would be sin. FW FABF.R. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINF1 ST. AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, Tli at 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... | |
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