 | 1871 - 586 pages
...become bald. THE LADDER OF 8T. AUQU8TINB. BY HW LONGFELLOW. Saint Augustine ! well hast thon 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 evenU, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 590 pages
...And thus to journey on ! THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. CAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...And thus to journey on ! THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. CAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...bad, mend ! Shakespeare. 1 120. EXCELLENCE. Attainment of 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,... | |
 | 1877 - 600 pages
...descends, Be consecrated ground. — Selected. 23 TOILING UPWARD. . AUGUSTINE well and truly 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 - 1877 - 634 pages
...di sfc lunga rigo. DANTZ. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. ACGOSTINE ! 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 ! AH common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Oar pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | William Howse Groser - 1877 - 304 pages
...earnest worker in the Christian vineyard take for his encouragement the sentiments of the poet : — " 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 distant mountains,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pages
...corner-stone of a nation ! 1 The Courtship of Miles Standish. 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 ! The Ladder of St. Augustine. Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 306 pages
...All your danger is in discord. Hiawatha— 1. June 23. 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 ! The Ladder of St. Augustine. Never bloomed the earth so gaily, Never shone the sun so brightly, As... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...thus paraphrased and nobly expanded by the American poet : — " Saint Augustine too truly said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame 1 " All common things^each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents... | |
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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 ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds... 
