 | 1866 - 344 pages
...Henry W. Longftllom. *XLIII. 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 tend, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...grassy hills. J.Keats. CLIIL THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. AINT 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... | |
 | William Landels - 1868 - 340 pages
...of his rising to greater excellence. He is an illustration of the truth, " That of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ; " and that we are not to " Deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain ; Since rising... | |
 | E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...sabre sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.' ' 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.' Fir, s. The fir-tree, tree of which deal boards are made. Fur, I. The hairy skin of a beast ; a substance... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...onward bear the message ! THE LADDER OF ST AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of onr 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,... | |
 | 636 pages
...his wife raving in the delirium of fever. CHAPTER III. " Saint Augustine ! well hast tliou said That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | John Earle - 1871 - 634 pages
...Longfellow we have the name accented on the first syllable. ' 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 1 ' In the same way they say invalid, partisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but for the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 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,... | |
 | 1871 - 304 pages
...the branches of thy tree, 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... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - 1871 - 280 pages
...poet's setting of the father's jewel, there is real truth in the thought, ' That of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.' 1 Little by little, as we gain, by the grace of God, victory over our besetting sin, we rise to a higher... | |
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