 The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 2001884Full view - About this book
 | Ann Taylor - 1818 - 194 lehte
...entertain, that advancing age is necessarily connected with mental imbecility.* In every stage of life * " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chink: that time has made." we frequently observe minds of no ordinary character united with feeble... | |
 | 1821 - 786 lehte
...'Hie awful situation of the speaker, who is now no more, will, we trust, add weight to hie advice. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eterual home ; Leaving the old, both... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 lehte
...as finding but small satisfaction in what a famous Poet reckons one of the advantages of old age ; " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Scribl. Ver. 57. At half mankind] The character alluded to is the principal one in the Plain Dealer... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 lehte
...stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. IMITATIONS. 12« Admire new light, &c.] ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' WALLER. 142 Dropping with infants' blood, &c.] Then thus: ' Since man from beast by words is known,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 lehte
...125. the checker'd shade,] An expression of Milton. IMITATIONS. Ver. 126. Admire new light, &c.] " The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...in new light, through chinks that time has made." Waller. W. But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick. 130... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 lehte
...stands, And holds his breeches close with both his hands. IMITATIONS. 126 Admire new light, &c.] ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' WALLER. " 2 Dropping with infants' blood, &c.] Then thus: ' Since man from beast by words is known,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 lehte
...different views, and hope I have received some advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made, then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down of this scaffolding of... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 lehte
...Waller happily says, " leaving the old," we " stand upon the threshold of the new" world, while Tlie soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : the latest conclusions of such a mind on such a subject as that de Dei cultti, would be, indeed, a valuable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 lehte
...but small satisfaction in what a famous Poet reckons one of the advantages of old age : " The sou1's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." SCRIBL. Warburton. Ver. 57. At half mankind] The character alluded to is the principal one in the Plain... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 lehte
...different views, and hope I have received some advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time ha> made; then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this scaffolding... | |
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