 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
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 416 páginas
...a stranger, to the mysteries of the inner life, once wrote — " The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Dear Adelaide's " dark cottage" was gradually decaying. At the end of August (1853), her cough grew... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 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...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.... | |
 | William Dowling - 1857 - 412 páginas
...more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting tilings, 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.... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 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 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger 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... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1857 - 338 páginas
...will be our meeting, In that bright eternal home. MILWAUKEE, Christmas, 1855. HERE AND HEREAFTER. " 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 celestial home... | |
 | 1856 - 514 páginas
...struggles through, poured from the divine fountain of all life. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." OM A DEVOTIONAL SPIRIT. THE possession and cultivation of a devotional spirit are essential to the... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 382 páginas
...a stranger to the mysteries of the inner life, once wrote — " The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Dear Adelaide's " dark cottage" was gradually decaying. At the end of August (1853), her cough grew... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 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 celestial home... | |
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