 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 212 pages
...onward bear the message ! 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 I All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1878 - 272 pages
...one sees truth in it. It is pretty much the same, is it not ? as saying with St. Augustine — ' That of our vices we can frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame ; ' or, as Tennyson puts it, that ' Men may rise on stepping stones Of their dead selves to higher... | |
 | 1878 - 294 pages
...Passage ; the first and las stanzas of which are as follows : "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 fame. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...Contention of Ajax and Ulvsses. 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 ! 1 blood— birth, ie, lineal descent, 2 ftafe — condition in life. All common things, each day's... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...hinders, obstructs. if-rev'o-ca-ble, that cannot be recalled. 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 - 1880 - 584 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 - 1880 - 328 pages
...PASSAGE. JFlitrfjt tfce Jirst. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. C 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 discontents,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...their dead selves to higher things. in jicmfriam. TENNYSON. Saint Augustine ! well hast thon said, That , and still, and cold, And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches, Vet withers on till a ! Tki Liuifier of St. Ananstitie. LONGI-ELLO4V. Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 354 pages
...who it is that is referred to. Longfellow informs us : — 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,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 pages
...hinders, obstructs. /r-re/o-ca-6/e, that cannot be recalled. 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,... | |
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