 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 438 pagina’s
...course. MASSINGIR. I FORGET what poet it is, who, speaking of old age, says that The Soul's dark mansion, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; a strange conceit, imputing to the decay of our nature that which results from its maturation. As... | |
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - 208 pagina’s
...not, then, * " If, (observes Pope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pagina’s
...saving truth did most certainly penetrate the poor shattered mind, realizing the beautiful words, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Hiss Ormskirko was among the very first who wrote to congratulate Mabel, and to express her indignation... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pagina’s
...in this world ne'er will be. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made, — Stronger by weakness...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. I have a... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pagina’s
...to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 2. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...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. Three poets,... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pagina’s
...lowliness which remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. ligjrt in C[m0tian " Stronger by weakness, wiser 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." WAILKK.... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 340 pagina’s
...lowliness which .remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. in CjmMinn leafy. « Stronger by weakness, wiser 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." WALLER.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time" has made i suffer, by sundry masters and teachers, both at home and at the schools, it was Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHV HILTOH.... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 348 pagina’s
...remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pnin. ' LVI. . light in Christian leafy. " Stronger by weakness, wiser 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." WAILZR. THE... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pagina’s
...*Tuabridg« Wells. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, L'ets...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. MILTON. 1608—1674.... | |
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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... 
