 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 of the new.  Critical works - Pàgina 278per Richard Hurd - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pàgines
...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 of the new. ANECDOTE... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pàgines
...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 of the new. TH'E LAST... | |
 | Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 pàgines
...soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights 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 of the new." But... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...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." Addison and Pope may be said to " divide the honors,'7 as to the authorship of the line— " Rides... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pàgines
...The 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 to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...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." Addison and Pope may be said to " divide the honours," as to the authorship of the line — "Rides... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pàgines
..."The soul's dark cottage, tattered 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." Addison and Pope may be said to " divide the honours," as to the authorship of the line— "Bides on... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...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. Upon the death of the Lord Protector. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pàgines
...AGE. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' 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 of the new. WALLEB.... | |
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