 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...  The Saturday Magazine ... - Σελίδα 1301842Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Martha McCannon Thomas - 1854 - 410 σελίδες
...great change to be near, and is preparing for it, but he makes no allusion to it before his family. " 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 σελίδες
...salutat. His 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 chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.... | |
 | 1855 - 488 σελίδες
...principles; he cometh to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season ! JOB v. 26. The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness pious men become As they draw near to their eternal home;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 σελίδες
...salutat. His 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 chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 σελίδες
...more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 σελίδες
...happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body ; " and Waller versifies the same idea : " 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."... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 σελίδες
...of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body;" and Waller versifies the same idea: " 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."... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...last age are like Almanacs of the last year. EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. Verses upon his Divine Poesy. 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.... | |
 | 1856 - 598 σελίδες
...reprinted in the third volume of Elite's Specimens of the Early English Poets. PH The striking couplet— " The Soul's dark Cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made," — is from Waller'* Epilogue to his Poems of Divine Love. See " N. & Q.," 1st... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 σελίδες
...of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body;" and Waller versifies the same idea: " 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."... | |
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