 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 1 Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the...  Maternal counsels to a daughter - Pagina 111door Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, [has made ; Lets in new light through chinks that Time Stronger by weakness wiser men become. As they draw near to their eternnl' home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the... | |
 | John Richard Houlding - 1881 - 322 pagina’s
...certainly was comfortable. CHAPTER XX. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made Stronger by weakness...men become As they draw near to their eternal home." — Waller. KATE was stimulated in her busy efforts to put her little house in order, by the hope that... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pagina’s
...Vison, — Bucolics. Ep. IX. 51 . The soul's dark cottage, battered and de" eayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time has made, Stronger by weakness,...men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. /. WA.LLEB— On Divine Poems. Line 13. Wind the mighty secrets of the past, And turn the key of time!... | |
 | Samuel Kettlewell - 1882 - 480 pagina’s
...alludes to this, when he says : — 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 nearer their eternal home, Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon the threshold... | |
 | J. R. H. Hawthorn - 1883 - 334 pagina’s
...certainly was comfortable. CHAPTER XX. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made Stronger by weakness...men become As they draw near to their eternal home." — Waller. KATE was stimulated in her busy efforts to put her little house in order, by the hope that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pagina’s
...sickness-broken body. — Thomas Fuller. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,...men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Edmund Waller. Death had illumined the Land of Sleep ; And his lifeless body lay A worn-out fetter,... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pagina’s
...elegant and polished verses. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light thro' chinks that Time has made : Stronger by weakness,...men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Verses upon his Divine Poesy. Abraham Cowley (1G18-16G7).— One of the most popular poets of his day.... | |
 | William Walters - 1883 - 208 pagina’s
...experience in the lines, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser...become, As they draw near to their eternal home." What beautiful visions the dying sometimes see ! What enrapturing sounds they hear ! What blest communion... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets iii new light through chinks that Time has made.1 Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Ver&ts vjton hit Divine Poesy. L'nder the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pagina’s
...youth. — Theodore Parker. IT). 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 their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of... | |
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