 | John Wesley - 1856 - 584 páginas
...is at hand, when the spirit will be summoned to return to God that gave it In that awful moment, " Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." foretaste of" the worm that never dieth." If he looks forward, what docs he see ? No joy, no peace... | |
 | John Trumbull - 1856 - 200 páginas
...and salaries there have bred And from the well of Bute infuse Three genuine drops of Highland dews, * Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, "Who stand upon the threshold of the new. Waller. To purge, like euphrasy* and rue, Thine eyes, for much thou hast to view. Now freed from Tory... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 páginas
...no permanent home, but are seekers after a 'city' which is to come". Edmund Waller (1605-1687) said: "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new." Wordsworth's immortal lines (Intimations of Immortality)... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 2000 - 468 páginas
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. The subject remains the same, — the value of the Apostolic... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...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...home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Denham's most influential work is his descriptive poem, "Cooper's... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 páginas
...poem: The Soul's dark Cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser Men become As they draw near to their Eternal home. Its original title, "Of the Last Verses in the Book," and the endorsement preserved in the family,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; OPOP; PoE; PoEL-3; PoRA; Prim; SeCP; SeCV-1; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW Bk. IV, 1. 73-78) 67 So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! That stand upon the threshold of the new. (1. 7—12) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoRV; HAP; MePo; NOBE; NOCV; NoP;... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1998 - 264 páginas
...Book," Poems of Edmund Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 272, ll. 15-18: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw...home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new. 126 Mercenarys mourn. Despite the asterisk, there is no... | |
 | Eliza Haywood - 1999 - 336 páginas
...descries. The Mind's dark Cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro' Chinks that Time has made. Stronger by Weakness wiser Men become, As they draw near to their eternal Home. 3 But, however we may reason on this Occasion, that there is somewhat of an Irksomeness to growing... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 páginas
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 1 Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw...home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. EDMUND WALLER ENGLISH (1606-1687) On His Blindness When I... | |
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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 of the new. 
