...cannot do much, but that is no release from responsibility. Do you know Longfellow's lines ? — ' 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...

...Some of these are very pretty. That called " St. Augustine's Ladder" contains good philosophy — " of our vices we can frame a ladder, if we will but tread beneath our feet each deed of shame." " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have f'eet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more...

...in the grace and harmony of its execution. It is entitled 'The Ladder of St. Augustine : ' ' SAIXT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but trend Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' All common things, each day's events, That with the hour...

...grace and harmony of its execution. It is entitled 'The Laddtr of St. Avyiutine : ' 1 SAINT AUGUSTINB ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread lieneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin...

...and the spear — The symbols that of yore Saint Filomena bore. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire — the bass design, That makes another's virtues less ; The revel of the giddy wine, • And all occasions...

...through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message ! THE LADDEE OP ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! All common things, eacn day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds...

...through the realms benighted, As they onward bear the message ! THE LADDEK OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices...Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! All common things, eacn day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds...

...facimus, si vitia ipsa calcanius," says St. Augustine ; or, to take Mr. Longfellow's paraphrase, — Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said That of our vices...will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. We may here find the ground-work of a peculiar com* Hodge's Way of Life, p. 99. f Hamilton's Reid,...

...sit him down and die." SHAKSPEARE, King Henry IV. VOL. I. 211 CHAPTER THE FIRST. FAIR WINDS. " A M. common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Oar pleasures and our discontents. Are rounds by which we may ascend. " We have not wings, we cannot...

...in the above, doubtless alluded to the " Ladder of St. Augustine," which commences : — 1 ' Saint Augustine ! — -well hast thou said That of our vices...our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend." Another feature in Tennyson's poetry, which renders its influence less healthy than that of Longfellow,...