 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
 | 1843 - 350 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, 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... | |
 | 1872 - 858 σελίδες
...instance, for example, may be found in Fuller's approximation to the often-quoted lines of Waller — The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Drawing near her death," says Fuller of of St. Monica, " she sent most pious thoughts to heaven,... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 σελίδες
...Like the aged 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 chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home,... | |
 | 1855 - 602 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.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 σελίδες
...the midst of the 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... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 σελίδες
...more. For then we know, how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to he lost. Clouds of affection, from our younger eyes, Conceal that...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 Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 σελίδες
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 σελίδες
...then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection2 from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries, The soul's dark cottage,3 battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,4... | |
 | 1846 - 644 σελίδες
...more ! For then we know how vain it was to boost Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds lso shall •worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | 1846 - 586 σελίδες
...how vain it was to boast . Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. . , .i. - - . ., -,„ 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... | |
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