 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 Saturday Magazine ... - Side 1301842Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 sider
...more ; For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...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... | |
 | 1860 - 304 sider
...no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 sider
...fleeting things so certain to be loft. Clouds of affe&ion from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weaknefs, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | 1860 - 634 sider
...things so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness that Age descries. " 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.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 sider
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.'" which, though its head towers above those of its companions when they are on... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 104 sider
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it. If what Waller says be true, that " ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made," then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age, to the shaking down this... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1861 - 426 sider
...more, For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost : Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 sider
...concluding with one of his happiest, one of his most characteristic, and one of his bestknown passages : — 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... | |
 | 1861 - 356 sider
...my failing flesh and heart; O could I catch a smile from thee, And drop into eternity I C. WESLEY. 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;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sider
...modulation of metaphysical wit into something more in conformity with Dryden's and Addison's definitions: 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;... | |
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