 | Granville series - 1882 - 330 pages
...the sun at noon of day ! THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 1. 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. 2. All common things — each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our... | |
 | Saint-Nicholas - 1882 - 1034 pages
...Tune. 4. Seen. II. i. June. ~ Used. 3. Need. 4. Eddv. Pi. Saint Augustine! "Well has* thou said. That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. HENRY W LONGFELLOW in '• The Lt —«'The TV ANSWERS то ALL OF THE PUZZLES m THE MAY NUMBER were... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1882 - 396 pages
...wrong." CHAPTER XIX. THE "BrNCH OF GARLIC." ' ' Saint Augustine, well hast thou said. That of our rices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." LONGFELLOW. JHE dog-cart had hardly turned into the high road before Purefoy had told Eckersley of... | |
 | Ger (pseud.) - 1882 - 176 pages
...I daresay I shall be able to kick off both my shoes again some day.' CHAPTER XXIV. HARD LESSONS. ' We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb.' LONGFELLOW. j]O be quick and open the window, Marie ; the sun is setting, and I can't see it.' ' Certainly... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...world unknown, — the corner-stone of a nation ! • Ibid. 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. Auguttlne. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 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,... | |
 | 1883 - 700 pages
...untoward experiences as helps and guides for the future. " Saint Augustine ! well hast them 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...onward bear the message ! THL 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 - 1894 - 748 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 shamt! ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1896 - 272 pages
...which we may rise to higher things." St. Augustine says — " Of our vices we 214 NO PAIN. NO PLEASURE can frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame." Pain and death have been contrived either by a benevolent or a malignant Creator, or they have merely... | |
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