 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 ... - Page 1301842Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...no more ! Far then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Ckwb of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness, which age descries. The tool's dark cottage, hatter'd and dccay'd, Let* in new light, through chinks that time has made : Stranger... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pages
...for then we know how vain it were to boast . , / Of fleeting things so 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 th;ft time has made ,Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 pages
...For then we know how vain it were to boast . . , Of fleeting things so certain to be lost ; , Clouds of affection from our younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness which age descries i The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 pages
...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.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...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 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... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...following exquisitely beautiful lines of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. " Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, " As we draw near to our eternal home.... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 pages
...Idle. 12. My country — "Good faith with all nations, tangling alliances with none." 13. Myself— " The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chink's, which time has made." To conclude, I j_,ive the following song to the old tune of Yankee doodle... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...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 which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, barter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...write with more perspicuity and force. — And here we might adopt the sentiments of an eminent poet : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. And now let us pause. — For whom are we sorrowing? Whose eulogj are we attempting... | |
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