 | 1861 - 356 pages
...slain Cry out for vengeance on us I Time destroyed Is suicide where more than blood is spilt.YOUNO. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! LONGFELLOW. [See also THE FALL — TEMPTATION.] HABIT. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive... | |
 | Ellen Clacy - 1862 - 294 pages
...not quite applicable to you just now — some of the lines, at least — the rest will please you. 'All common things — each day's events, That with...discontents — Are rounds by which we may ascend * We have not wings — we cannot soar — But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees —... | |
 | 1862 - 566 pages
...the imp itself is due to St. Augustine. Longfellow'iv begin : — " St. Augustine t well hast thon said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." St. Augustine's words are " De vitiis nosa scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus." man III.,... | |
 | 1862 - 606 pages
...image itself is due to St. Augustine. Longfellow's versus begin : — "St. Augustine! well hast thon said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." St. Augustine's words are " De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus." (Sermon... | |
 | L N. Comyn - 1862 - 476 pages
...praiseworthy intention of doing his best to aggravate the unlucky Haughton he departed. 124 CHAPTER IX. " All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end Our pleasures and onr discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." LONGFELLOW. TOM was disappointed of a " scene... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 546 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 vices we can frame A ladder,'5 if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! All common things each day's events,... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1862 - 424 pages
...shut the book and sit him down and die." SHAKSPEAKE, Kimj Henry I V. CHAPTER THE FIRST. PAIR WINDS. " ALL common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Onr pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ;i.-een>!. " We have not wings, we cannot... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 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...common things, each day's events, That with the hour be<>in and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire,... | |
 | Change - 1864 - 324 pages
...forgetful of self, making of everyday trials and temptations the rounds of the ladder she was ascending. "All common things — each day's events, That with...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." After a pleasant week spent at Monckton, Walter and Fanny returned to their happy home ; and there,... | |
 | Beatrice (fict. name.) - 1864 - 140 pages
...them all round by way of promise to do better ; and so ended that day's troubles. 22 CHAPTER IV. " All common things, each day's events, That with the...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." BY the time summer visited the Cornish hills, Beatrice could understand and express herself pretty... | |
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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... 
