 | 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
...following exquisitely beautiful lines of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets...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... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 pagina’s
...Idle. 12. My country — "Good faith with all nations, tangling alliances with none." 13. Myself— " The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chink's, which time has made." To conclude, I j_,ive the following song to the old tune of Yankee doodle... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pagina’s
...emptiness which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, barter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights thro' 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. cxxx. WHAT... | |
 | 1826 - 664 pagina’s
...he could indite: • No other theme could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that...men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new. He had begun... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pagina’s
...write with more perspicuity and force. — And here we might adopt the sentiments of an eminent poet : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. And now let us pause. — For whom are we sorrowing? Whose eulogj are we attempting to speak ? What... | |
 | 1827 - 918 pagina’s
...tiaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more 'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the... | |
 | 1828 - 198 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and dccay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 3 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. WA1XER.... | |
 | 1827 - 912 pagina’s
...has quaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pagina’s
...EVENTFUL HISTORY'" OLD AGE AND DEATH. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As tbey draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon... | |
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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... 
