 | William Mathews - 1903 - 442 pages
...not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will." — LOWELL. " All common things, each day's events, That with the...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." LONGFELLOW. THERE is an old Roman legend that a Sibyl once came to the palace of Tarquin the Second,... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1903 - 248 pages
...a way one sees truth in it. It is pretty much the same, is it not, as saying with St. Augustine, ' that of our vices we can frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame ' ? Or, as Tennyson puts it, that ' Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher... | |
 | S. D. Waterman, J. W. McClymonds, C. C. Hughes - 1903 - 200 pages
...boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy people, Lord ! Amen. — Kipling. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will hut tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. All common things, each day's events, That with the... | |
 | 1904 - 1058 pages
...German of FKIICDIHCli coTTI.IKI! Kl.OPSTOCK. Translation of w. TAYLOR. THE LADDER OF SAINT 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 we may ascend. The low desire, the base design,... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1904 - 500 pages
...213. — We make to ourselves ladslers of our vices when we tread the vices themselves under foot. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. — Longfellow, 502. De votre esprit la force est si puissante Que vous pourriez vous passer de beaute":... | |
 | John Hunter - 1904 - 920 pages
...to sit and dream : The true must first be tried. Henry Alford. 857. The Heavenly Ladder. LM 1. A LL common things, each day's events, That with the hour...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. 2. The low desire, the base design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the treacherous... | |
 | 1905 - 548 pages
...his moral betterment Of this a few lines from the " Ladder of St Augustine" may be taken as a type : 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... | |
 | 1905 - 610 pages
...betterment Of this a few lines from the " Ladder of St Augustine" may be taken as a type: Saint Augustine I well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame...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... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 pages
...with thee 1 1 1849. 1849.» THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, 3 That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame t All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1906 - 156 pages
...thy darkness and distress New light and strength they give ! The Goblet of Life JANUARY THIRTEENTH Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! The Ladder of St. Augustine JANUARY FOURTEENTH All thoughts of ill ; all evil deeds, That have their... | |
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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... 
