 | 1855 - 602 σελίδες
...latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ANECDOTE OF MR. MACAULAT. — An amusing — -und absurd — anecdote of Mr. MacHulay is making a tour... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 σελίδες
...Titian, he seems to have been exalted and refined by the thought of approaching death. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets In new light through...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. There is a real awe and solemnity in these lines; and they move with the dignity and resignation of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 σελίδες
...younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, nt once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON. Above all the poets of this... | |
 | 1844 - 484 σελίδες
...could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, thro' chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness,...: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new. He had begun to transcribe his fourth sermon ; but illness... | |
 | Katherine Thomson, Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1844 - 978 σελίδες
...want," added she in a loud voice, and shutting the door with corresponding energy. CHAPTER XIII. • Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. WALLER. ONE fine morning, Joscelyne De Clare stood by the bed-side of his dying friend. It was a bright... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 σελίδες
...breaking of his fortunes. It wus well and beautifully laid by a then living poet, ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Forster's Life of SIrafford, Lardncr's Cabinet Cyctopadla. t " A poet, who was present, exclaimed,... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 σελίδες
...Clouds of affection, from our younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through...they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. * AGE smooths our paths to prudence; sweeps aside The snares, keen appetite, and passion spread.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 σελίδες
...characteristic, and one of his best-known passages : — The soul's dark cottage, batter' d and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made...weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their etemal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 σελίδες
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home....Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That ftand upon the threfhold of the new." Compare Sbakfpeare's King Richard II. ii. i . O. p. 197. OR more... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 σελίδες
...cottage batter'd and deeay'd ; Leti in new light through chinks that time hai made: Stronger by weakneM, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at ooce they Tiew That stand npon the threshold of the new." WILLIR. Dr. Watts's Hor. Lyr. "A Sight of... | |
| |
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold... 
