 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - 208 pages
...not, then, * " If, (observes Pope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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 scaffolding of... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...in this world ne'er will be. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made, — Stronger by weakness...home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view Who stand upon the threshold of the new. I have a Father in Heaven who is always with me, and whose... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pages
...be found in Waller's Works, 1729, 4to., p. 316. On the foregoing Divine Poems, concluding with — " Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." • * * * " Miratur limen olympi." — Virgil. cfr. " N. & Q." 3rd S. ix. 208. To the passages analogous... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 2. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time" has made i suffer, by sundry masters and teachers, both at home...found that whether aught was imposed me by them that JOHV HILTOH. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range of English poetry, inferior only... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 340 pages
...lowliness which .remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. in CjmMinn leafy. « Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." WALLER. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pages
...lowliness which remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. ligjrt in C[m0tian " Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." WAILKK. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 348 pages
...remains, though the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pnin. ' LVI. . light in Christian leafy. " Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." WAILZR. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...*Tuabridg« Wells. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, L'ets...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. MILTON. 1608—1674. Milton was educated with great care, and was designed for the church; but did... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER.1 THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND SATAN. They ended parle, and both addressed for fight Unspeakable... | |
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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... 
