 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 322 lehte
...escape them f " — History and Reality of Apparitions, by Andrew Moreton, Esq., p. 218. London : 1735" The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which Time hath made." Edmund Waller. " All who read this, I exhort in the Name of the Most Sacred... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : ore strong than traitor's arms, Quite vanquish 'd him : then burst his mighty Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 lehte
...pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. MRS. THRALE: Three Warnings. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. WALLF.R. But an old... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 332 lehte
...affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batterM 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,... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 564 lehte
...Reflections ; reflections, what ? nothing that I ever could find — nor can I well agree with Waller, that " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Chinks I am afraid there are, but instead of new light, I find nothiug but " darkness visible," that... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 lehte
...these different views, and I hope have received some advantage by it, if what 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 this scaffolding of the... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 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 ol<... | |
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