 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pages
...Part n, v. Into a world unknown, — the corner-stone of a nation ! * The Courtship of Miles Standish. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! The Ladder of St. Augustine. Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1882 - 486 pages
...delights and struggles against temptation ... we should have poetry enough to fill a volume. DRIFT-WOOD. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Tim LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINB Rise, O youth, and wrestle with me. NOVEMBER 14. HIAWATHA. Already the... | |
 | 1881 - 696 pages
...may work at this character-building; for he tells us in " The Ladder of St. Augustine " : — "St. Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! "Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 688 pages
...may work at this character-building; for he tells us in " The Ladder of St. Augustine " : — " St. Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame I . " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...marches to the grave." [Psalm of Life. "St. Augustine! well hast thou said INDIANA SCHOOL JOURNAL. 65 A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. * * * * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 698 pages
...Gleaming through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message! THE LADDER OF ST AUGUSTIXE. 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,... | |
 | Granville series - 1882 - 330 pages
...'twill be desolate. 6. Thus, the ravening locust is strong and grim THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. 1. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. 2. All common things—each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1882 - 396 pages
...things go wrong." CHAPTER XIX. THE "Hr.VCff OF GARLIC." ' Saint Augustine, well hast thou said, Tluit of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." LONGFELLOW. I HE dog-cart had hardly turned into the high road before Purefoy had told Eckersley of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...Gleaming through therealms benighted As they onward bear the message ! THL LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which wemay ascend. All common things, each day's... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...The Courtship of Milet Standiih. iv. Into a world unknown, —the corner-stone of a nation ! 2 Ibid. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. 5 The Ladder of St. Augustine. The heights by great men reached and kept Wore not attained by sudden... | |
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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 
