 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pages
...Part u, v. Into a world unknown, — the corner-stone of a nation ! 1 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... | |
 | 1878 - 294 pages
...of St. Augustine, one of his Kirds of Passage ; the first and las stanzas of which are as follows : "Saint Augustine! well hast thou said That of our...if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of fame. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 212 pages
...through the realms benighted As they onward bear the message ! THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. ( AINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame I All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 pages
...song of their respective daily toils, as they whispered to one another the inspiriting ditty — ' 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, by more... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1878 - 330 pages
...they are thus paraphrased and nobly expanded by the American poet : — " Saint Augustine too truly said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame 1 " All common things^each day's events, That with the hour begin and end ; Our pleasures and our discontents... | |
 | Charles Voysey - 1878 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1879 - 206 pages
...The above verses are taken from The Contention of Ajax and Ulvsses. THE LADDER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! 1 blood— birth, ie, lineal descent, 2 ftafe — condition in life. All common things, each day's... | |
 | John Towle Marriott - 1879 - 204 pages
...and fear ; Live as ye worship, side by side ; Your common claims revere. Harriet Martineau. 100 LM i ALL common things, each day's events, That with the...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... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 pages
...dare, believing this, Against His messengers to shut the door? HW Longfellow. February 11. February 12. All common things, each day's events, That with the...our 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, by more and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. in jicmfriam. TENNYSON. Saint Augustine ! well hast thon tered guise, and still, and cold, And bloodless, with...its sleepless sorrow aches, Vet withers on till a ! Tki Liuifier of St. Ananstitie. LONGI-ELLO4V. Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should... | |
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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... 
