 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 346 pagina’s
...indite, Is by her glafs inftructed how to write. * Paris. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pagina’s
...which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks 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. • « •... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 pagina’s
...other useful knowledge. The lines are Mr. Waller's, and in the best manner of that very refined writer. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, " Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made.... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pagina’s
...age descries ; The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft 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." CHAPTER... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made j 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." CHAPTER... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pagina’s
...(Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The soul's dark cottaye, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men became, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pagina’s
...descries. The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and deeay'd. Lets in new light , t hruugh chinks t hat ti me 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. Miratur... | |
 | 1821 - 786 pagina’s
...no more, will, we trust, add weight to hie advice. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made....weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eterual home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at ouce they view, That stand upon the threshold of the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pagina’s
...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...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. * * * Aliratar... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. " Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, " As we draw near to our eternal home. " Quitting the old, at once both worlds they view... | |
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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... 
