 | 1872 - 858 pagina’s
...instance, for example, may be found in Fuller's approximation to the often-quoted lines of Waller — The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Drawing near her death," says Fuller of of St. Monica, " she sent most pious... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 pagina’s
...to he lost. Clouds of affection, from our younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. * AGE smooths our paths to prudence; sweeps aside The snares, keen appetite, and passion spread.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pagina’s
...characteristic, and one of his best-known passages : — 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 etemal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 pagina’s
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home....Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That ftand upon the threfhold of the new." Compare Sbakfpeare's King Richard II. ii. i . O. p. 197. OR more... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this scaffolding of the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 pagina’s
...cottage batter'd and deeay'd ; Leti in new light through chinks that time hai made: Stronger by weakneM, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at ooce they Tiew That stand npon the threshold of the new." WILLIR. Dr. Watts's Hor. Lyr. "A Sight of... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...affection2 from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries, The soul's dark cottage,3 battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,4 wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
 | 1846 - 644 pagina’s
...emptiness which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' w before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust....offer gifts; yea, all kings shall fall down before WALLER. MISSIONS. HOW THEY H1QUT BE SUPPORTED, AND THE RETURNS •THEY Uai.NO. ( From " Christian Minions... | |
 | 1846 - 318 pagina’s
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshholcl... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 382 pagina’s
...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.' " Forster's left of Strafford, Lardner's Cabinet CydapaxUa. which, though its head towers above those... | |
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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... 
