 | Annie Rix Militz - 1914 - 208 pages
...redeemed, and what have been stumbling blocks in our life may be made stepping stones to heaven. St. Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we but tread Practice. Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Longfellow. Daily consecrate yourself to God... | |
 | Albert Henry Currier - 1915 - 336 pages
...text for one of his familiar and most stimuiting poems, entitled "The Ladder of Saint LUgustine":— "Saint Augustine, well hast thou said That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame," etc. He was given much to deep and prolonged medation upon religious themes. There is scarcely theological... | |
 | Rob Roy McGregor Converse - 1916 - 368 pages
...same thought that nearly all of our modern poets have sought to put into verse: "—of our failures we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." Or, as an English poet puts it: "I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...heart, had healed it forever. Part ii. 5. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, S That of our ¿ices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.' --¿ 1. Tidy Ladder of Saint Augustine. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1920 - 456 pages
...lines from his poem, "The Ladder of St. Augustine," has expressed the same thought in a different way: "Saint Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our...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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 458 pages
...lines from his poem, "The Ladder of St. Augustine," has expressed the same thought in a different way: "Saint Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our...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... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck, Lura E. Runkel - 1920 - 536 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 pages
...spaces, Where no foot has left its traces: Let us turn and wander thither! THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE! well hast thou said, That of our...but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day's events. That with the hour beginandend, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Longfellow - 1922 - 722 pages
...Where no foot has left its traces: Let us turn and wander thither! THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE SAn¿r AUGUSTINE! well hast thou said, That of our vices...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 726 pages
...left its traces : Let us turn and wander thither 1 THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE 1 well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame...if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of eliaiue I All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and... | |
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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 
