 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1880 - 356 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... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 pages
...Lucknow played! JG WHITTIER. 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, The low desire, the base... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 474 pages
...should have poetry enough to fill a volume. DEIFT-WOOD. 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 LADDEE OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me. HIAWATHA. NOVEMBEE 14. Already the... | |
 | 1881 - 696 pages
...for he tells us in "The Ladder of St. Augustine " : — " St. 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 ! " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...from the sea ! PHCBBB GARY. THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song : Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breat ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...truth. FRANCES AS.NK KKMBLK. THE LADDER OF ST. AUQVSTINE. SAINT» AUGUSTINE! well hast thou said, That ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 pages
...and leave you so. Shakespere. THE LADDER OP 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,... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 pages
...for he tells us in " The Ladder of St. Augustine " : — " St. 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 . " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last... | |
 | 1881 - 796 pages
...marches to the grave." [Psalm of Life. "St. Augustine! well hast thou said INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. 65 A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. * * * * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...prayer. Ibid, xxxii. Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form. Ibid, xxxiii. A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings .... and skim away. In Memoriam. xlvii. Hold thou... | |
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