 | John Earle - 1873 - 708 pages
...following verse by Longfellow we have the name accented on the first syllable. ' Saint Augustine 1 well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread n the same way they say ally, invalid, partisan, not for ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but for the more... | |
 | 1873 - 172 pages
...and self-indulgence is far stronger than to anger. St. Augustine tells us that " Of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." * And each temptation has generally a corresponding good to help us on our heavenward way. For example,... | |
 | John Clifford - 1874 - 204 pages
...again, said, " Let me read you part of this poem of Longfellow's on ' THE LADDER OP ST. 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 begin and end, Our pleasures, and our discontents... | |
 | 1871 - 586 pages
...shed in old age on the same principle that men bald. THE LADDER OF ST. AUQU3TINB. BY HW LONGFELLOW. 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... | |
 | Alfred Porter Putnam - 1875 - 592 pages
...lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on ! THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. CAINT AUGUSTINE! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 1124 pages
...Gleaming through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message ! THE LADDER OF ST. 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 begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents.... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...uses send ; Not to pick bad from bad ; but by bad, mend ! Shakespeare. 1120. EXCELLENCE. Attainment of 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...message 1 THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Nor deem the irrevocable Pastj As wholly wasted, wholly vam, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1878 - 1116 pages
...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ввя JONSON. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGVSTIXE. rent lake, And then strike home ! Tread those reviving...manhood !—unto thee Indifferent should the smile common 'things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878 - 304 pages
...of thy dreams. Hypenon—Book 1, cfiap. 8. All your danger is in discord. June 2j. llitucallm—l. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! The Ladder of St. Augustine. Never bloomed the earth so gaily, Never shone the sun so brightly, As... | |
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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 
