 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...Gleaming through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message! THE LADDER OF ST AUGC5TTXE. 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 begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...That led them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.' ' Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.' Fir, s. The fir-tree, tree of which deal boards are made. Fur, The hairy skin of a beast; a substance... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 pages
...Gleaming through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message! THE LADDER OF ST AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUS.TINE! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame 1 All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 442 pages
...message ! THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, whollv vain, SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Beneath our feet each deed of... | |
 | George Edward Jelf - 1871 - 280 pages
...poet's setting of the father's jewel, there is real truth in the thought, ' That of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.' * Little by little, as we gain, by the grace of God, victory over our besetting sin, we rise to a higher... | |
 | Christian lyrics, Lucy Massey - 1872 - 708 pages
...OF SAINT A UGUSTINE. THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. A1NT Augustine! well hast thou said, That of pur 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 - 1873 - 360 pages
...Hold aloft their torches lighted, Gleaming through the realms benighted, THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! AH common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...think your mother chides, and leave you so. Shakespere. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTIXE ! well hast thou said That of our vices we can frame...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,... | |
 | David Kay - 1873 - 244 pages
...folly."—(FONTENELLE.) " De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus si vitia ipsa calcamus."—(St. AUGUSTINE.) " St. Augustine, well hast thou said, That, of our vices...if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."—(LONGFELLOW.) * " Conviction, were it never so excellent, is worthless till it converts itself... | |
 | John Earle - 1873 - 736 pages
...pronunciation. But in the following verse by Longfellow we have the name accented on the first syllable. ' Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread In the same way they say dll_y, invalid, partisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but for... | |
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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 
