...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 1 The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Fortter'a Life of Strafford, tariner't Cabinet Cyclopcedta. which, though its...

...the 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.' " Forster's left of Strafford, Lardner's Cabinet CydapaxUa. which, though its...

...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " 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 nearer to their eternal home;...

...above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller : — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.'1 M. Week Sun Sun i Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. &s. Water ready ; and not...

...Kentucky's soil, How shared they with each dauntless hand War's tempest and life's toil.— W. D, Gattaghtr. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Walltr. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour...

...of her sickness-broken body. Waller has versified this in the well-known lines : Tho кшГэ dai-k cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. Plutarch, and after him Montaigne, relate a story, scarcely credible, of the sagacity of...

...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal...

...became repossessed of somewhat of her own higher power, and, as Waller so beautifully expresses it, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The ancients held this strongly ; none more so than Plato. Just before the death...

...blessed.* • " If, (observes Pope, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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...

...saving truth did most certainly penetrate the poor shattered mind, realizing the beautiful words, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Hiss Ormskirko was among the very first who wrote to congratulate Mabel, and to...