 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
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagina’s
...iii. Ode 1 EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. 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. Verses upon his Dtcine Poesy. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received... | |
 | Dorothea Maria Ogilvy - 1865 - 216 pagina’s
...evermore." Dorothea. TO MY FATHER. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness...become, As they draw near to their eternal home." TJONOURED be thy dear head, where age de-*• •*• scending, Tints thy once ebon locks with falling... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pagina’s
...was adopted cautioning the public against a swindler who passed by the name of Major AL Pryme. — Stronger by weakness, wiser men become as they draw near to their eterna home. — Another appeal in behalf of < Vetansjs ' made by the Consul in New York. — Notwithstanding... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagina’s
...EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. The soul's dark cottage, batte'red and decayed,1 Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser...men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Vtrses upon his Dh-ine Potsy. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. HPHE 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. Verses upon his Divine Poesy. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath received... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1870 - 610 pagina’s
...certain to be lost. Clouds of aifection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : 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 threshold... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 pagina’s
...and forms. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home." The brilliant mistakes of to-day are the mistakes of young men who in the enthusiasm of shooting have... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1870 - 318 pagina’s
...age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul'a 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 to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the... | |
 | 1870 - 306 pagina’s
...age, ended his " Divine Poems." " 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 to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the... | |
 | 1870 - 252 pagina’s
...Ere slumbers chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light, Of other days around me. Thomas Moore. '-Stronger by weakness wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home" " DIVINE POESY," EDMUND WALLEB ||OETRY OF CONTEMPLATION AND ISPIRATION. PART IV. UPWARD. PWARD, where... | |
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