 | Charles Macauley Stuart - 1896 - 328 pages
...OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder,1 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,... | |
 | Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1897 - 488 pages
...Longfellow. But it is far better to rise on stepping-stones of their living selves to higher things. If " Of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame," how much more can we frame a ladder of all deeds faithfully done ! 27. Thou oughtest therefore to have... | |
 | Edith E. Horsman - 1897 - 430 pages
...of life, I will at least be a tortoise, and by little and little win something, however small. " ' We have not wings — we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb.' Oh yes ! and, God helping me, climb I will." So, next day, the moment she was free, Althea took the... | |
 | James Newton Baskett - 1898 - 370 pages
...two lives join there is oft a scar ; They are one and one with a shadowy third." — BROWNING. " That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." — LONGFELLOW. "The world caught dreaming with the look of heaven." — LE GALLIENNE. " To-morrow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1899 - 456 pages
...turn and wander thither ! 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 ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - 1899 - 440 pages
...THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 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 - 1901 - 484 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,... | |
 | Alice Rose Power - 1901 - 216 pages
...Stedman. Poems For Memorizing 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,... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 184 pages
...BY GINN & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS jlKarte, AND jfarqurltnr PKEFACE. " We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and cliinb." i THE second year of school life is of great importance. The child, who a year ago entered... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 380 pages
...OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder,1 if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame t All common things, each clay's events. That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
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