 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
 | Joseph John Freeman - 1851 - 552 páginas
...illustrating the sentiment of Herbert, of which he frequently reminded me when conversing with him — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. The pulpit of Union Chapel, Cape Town, had been for some time vacant. The congregation... | |
 | Samuel Henry Dickson - 1852 - 356 páginas
...that the mind, at the near approach of dissolution, becomes unusually clear, vigorous, and active. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...in new light through chinks which Time has made.' Excitement of the uncontrolled imagination, as in dreams, and other modes of delirium, is frequently... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 páginas
...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.' " Forst&r's Lafe of Stratford, Lai Oner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. which, though its... | |
 | 1852 - 512 páginas
...beams of his glorious presence, as being then even almost in sight."— HOOKER'S Eccles. Pol. BV " 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.... | |
 | 1853 - 560 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...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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of alfectiou from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd nnd decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1854 - 276 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...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.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 páginas
...boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our youthful 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... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1854 - 106 páginas
...•mill feel what all of us can freely talk about, that " All flesh is grass." Is. xl. 6, 7. But then " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." You will find your piety a pure consolation, an inestimable treasure, so that... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 276 páginas
...the present, in the sanctified recollection of saints on high/ 5 CHAPTER IV. GLIMPSES OF THE LAND. 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.... | |
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