 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 ... - Página 1301842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - 208 páginas
...not, then, * " If, (observes Pope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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... | |
 | 1867 - 682 páginas
...persons know his quaintly beautiful lines quoted in Southey's Doctor — " The soul's dark mansion, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Does Soutliey say that Daniel wrote these lines ; and if so, does ye give any authority for the statement?... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...more. For then \ve know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time" has made i Stronger by weakness,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...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. 2. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. *Tuabridg« Wells. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...battered and decayed, L'ets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness wiser men become, •. As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...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, battered aud decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...more: For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting thing's, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | 1851 - 568 páginas
...recalled to uiy own memory, nor to that of several friends to whom I have referred. The couplet is — " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made." EFFAKESS. London, Jan. 4. 1851. " Small by degrees rind beautifully less." —... | |
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