...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 1 The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Fortter'a Life of Strafford, tariner't Cabinet Cyclopcedta. which, though its head towers above those...

...Kentucky's soil, How shared they with each dauntless hand War's tempest and life's toil.— W. D, Gattaghtr. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Walltr. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee...

...younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become ' '- 1 As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That...

...above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller : — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.'1 M. Week Sun Sun i Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. &s. Water ready ; and not the least of...

...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal...

...which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd nnd decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks JOHN MILTON. Above all the poets of this age, nnd. in the whole range of English poetry, inferior only...

...Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul'a dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, I -ft ч ament, old Abbeys, The fairies lost command ; They...priests' babies, But some have changed your land ; upou the threshold of the uew. JOHN HILTON. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range...

...blessed.* • " If, (observes Pope, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) if what Waller says be true, that ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;' then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this scaffolding of the...

...became repossessed of somewhat of her own higher power, and, as Waller so beautifully expresses it, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The ancients held this strongly ; none more so than Plato. Just before the death of Socrates he foretold,...

...course. MASSINGIR. I FORGET what poet it is, who, speaking of old age, says that The Soul's dark mansion, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; a strange conceit, imputing to the decay of our nature that which results from its maturation. As...