 | John Earle - 1871 - 644 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...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame 1 ' In the same way they say invalid, partisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but for the... | |
 | Ruth Lee (fict.name.) - 1871 - 156 pages
...faults we may make a ladder on which to rise to better things, as a poet of our own day says : — "All common things, each day's events, That with the...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." If we but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame, and learn to loathe our sins, and trust in a higher... | |
 | 634 pages
...ruined , and his wife raving in the delirium of fever. CHAPTER III. " Saint Augustine ! well hast tliou said That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we...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... | |
 | 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.' 1 Little by little, as we gain, by the grace of God, victory over our besetting sin, we rise to a higher... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...HW Longfellow. 1173. EXCELLENOE, Attainment of. Saint Augustine 1 well hast thou said, That of pur to vice, Quickly him they will entice ; But, if fortune once do frown, Then — fare 1 All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...of thy belly ; they'll never ask thee agai' -I shall be dunning thee every day." She gtoMcv at £t, Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. All common things, each day's events,... | |
 | 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...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' In the same way they say dlly, Invalid, pdrtisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | David Kay - 1873 - 242 pages
...(FONTENELLE.) " De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimns si vitia ipsa calcamus." — (St. AUGUSTINE.) " St. Augustine, well hast thou said, That, of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." — (LONGFELLOW.) * " Conviction, were it never so excellent, is worthless till it converts itself... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1873 - 338 pages
...other expenses which would be associated with Aline's " coming out." CHAPTER IX. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. All common things, each day's events, That with the...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. LONGFELLOW. "HEUBEN APPERSLEY arrived at Fording•" hill about the middle of the next day. He knew... | |
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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... 
