 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope: Correspondence - Side 342av Alexander Pope - 1871Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 sider
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 sider
...have had frequent opportunities of late to consider my-, self in 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 thro' chinks that Time has made." Then surely sickness, contributing... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 sider
...I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in 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 thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 362 sider
...I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in 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 thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 sider
...frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views ; and, I hope, have re. ceived some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and decay'd, .Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 sider
...have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views ; and, I hope, I 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... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 sider
...have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different \iews; and, I hope, I 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... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 sider
...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 Pope - 1822 - 396 sider
...I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in 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 thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sider
...I have bad frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller *) says be true, that The touts dart cnttage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely... | |
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