 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
 | 1827 - 918 σελίδες
...tiaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more 'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously... | |
 | 1828 - 198 σελίδες
...more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 2 Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries: The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and dccay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 3 Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 σελίδες
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that rd, who was twice chosen llmt Time lias made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down Uns... | |
 | 1827 - 912 σελίδες
...has quaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously... | |
 | 1832 - 640 σελίδες
...confining it, and closing up its avenues of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, '• Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made." Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1832 - 482 σελίδες
...much as I know, you could not refrain from rejoicing, and even 1 ' The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made.' leaping for joy. Labours, trials, troubles, would be nothing : you would rejoice in afflictions, and... | |
 | William Roberts - 1834 - 516 σελίδες
...light, quite new and different from what was seen before. Mr. Waller has borrowed this thought ; — ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' We are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses, and though we cannot see them,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1835 - 578 σελίδες
...it,' as far as his observation goes, in regard to intellect, (memory excepted,) the wellknown distich, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which lime has made,' is far more correct. His memory, however, is greatly impaired, and his limbs are feeble.... | |
 | 1836 - 446 σελίδες
...midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, — " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made! " 1 An admirable commentary on this fierce text is supplied by my friend Mr. Cattermole,... | |
 | Twenty essays - 1838 - 212 σελίδες
...immortality, seeks with direct and steady aim, that life which can be found only in God's favour; when— " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks by tempests made." WALLER. But, alas ! such triumphs of the spirit over its weak body are short, and... | |
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