 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
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 416 σελίδες
...a stranger, to the mysteries of the inner life, once wrote — " The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Dear Adelaide's " dark cottage" was gradually decaying. At the end of August (1853), her cough grew... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 σελίδες
...more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...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.... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 σελίδες
...more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting tilings, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...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.... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 σελίδες
...no 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 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 σελίδες
...boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal the emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1857 - 338 σελίδες
...will be our meeting, In that bright eternal home. MILWAUKEE, Christmas, 1855. HERE AND HEREAFTER. " 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 celestial home... | |
 | 1856 - 514 σελίδες
...struggles through, poured from the divine fountain of all life. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." OM A DEVOTIONAL SPIRIT. THE possession and cultivation of a devotional spirit are essential to the... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 σελίδες
...more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our 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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 382 σελίδες
...a stranger to the mysteries of the inner life, once wrote — " The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Dear Adelaide's " dark cottage" was gradually decaying. At the end of August (1853), her cough grew... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 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...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 celestial home... | |
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