 | Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 pages
...defeat might be victory in disguise; he believed with Saint Augustine that " of our vices we can build a ladder if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame "; he held that we might well fix our eyes upon the path leading to higher destinies,— " Nor deem... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 650 pages
...the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE Saint Augustine! well hast thou said That of our vices...but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day's events, 5 That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 648 pages
...the wind's will, ■^d the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE Saint Augustine! well hast thou said That of our vices...but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day's events, 5 That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | 1955 - 440 pages
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 | 1955 - 210 pages
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 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 568 pages
...from his poem "The Ladder of St. Augustine " has expressed the same thought in a different way: "St. Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! We have not wings, we cannot soar; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and... | |
 | 1924 - 774 pages
...a postal order," admitted the precincts. " It would not be proper." 11 Saint Augustine, well Iiast thou said That of our vices we can frame A ladder,...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." Janet in those days was eighteen, a very slim and slender girl, whose expression seemed always to denote... | |
 | 1925
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 | Edward Kennard Rand - 1928 - 392 pages
...scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa ca/camus, translated by Longfellow in his "Ladder of St. Augustine," Saint Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. . ^ Tennyson rendered this into better poetry in In Memoriam: Of their dead selves to better things.... | |
 | Edward Kennard Rand - 1928 - 390 pages
...scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus, translated by Longfellow in his "Ladder of St. Augustine," Saint Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Tennyson rendered this into better poetry in In Memoriam: Of their dead selves to better things. I... | |
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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 
