 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...  Salad for the Social - עמוד 381מאת Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 401 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 דפים
...cf Agricola. May we not liften with a tender attention to the expiring notes of Waller. The foul's dark cottage, battered, and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that timt has made; Stronger by weaknefs, wifer, men become, AS they draw near to their eternil home : Leaving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 346 דפים
...indite, Is by her glafs inftructed how to write. * Paris. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 דפים
...which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks 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 of the new. • « •... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 דפים
...other useful knowledge. The lines are Mr. Waller's, and in the best manner of that very refined writer. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, " Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made.... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 דפים
...age descries ; The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft 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 of the new." CHAPTER... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 דפים
...The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made j 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 of the new." CHAPTER... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 דפים
...(Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The soul's dark cottaye, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men became, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 דפים
...the following exquisitely beautiful lines pf Waller, which arc sufficient to immortalize his name : ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time bus made. ' Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, ' As we draw near to our eternal home. ' Quitting... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 דפים
...descries. The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and deeay'd. Lets in new light , t hruugh chinks t hat ti me 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 of the new. Miratur... | |
 | 1821 - 786 דפים
...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....weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eterual home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at ouce they view, That stand upon the threshold of the... | |
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