 | 1846 - 586 pages
...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 men become ' '- 1 As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - 1847 - 146 pages
...blessed.* • " If, (observes Pope, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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 scaffolding of the... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1847 - 232 pages
...became repossessed of somewhat of her own higher power, and, as Waller so beautifully expresses it, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The ancients held this strongly ; none more so than Plato. Just before the death of Socrates he foretold,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 438 pages
...course. MASSINGIR. I FORGET what poet it is, who, speaking of old age, says that The Soul's dark mansion, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; a strange conceit, imputing to the decay of our nature that which results from its maturation. As... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pages
...saving truth did most certainly penetrate the poor shattered mind, realizing the beautiful words, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Hiss Ormskirko was among the very first who wrote to congratulate Mabel, and to express her indignation... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...certain to be lost. *Tuabridg« Wells. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...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, battered...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... | |
 | Joseph John Freeman - 1851 - 552 pages
...illustrating the sentiment of Herbert, of which he frequently reminded me when conversing with him — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. The pulpit of Union Chapel, Cape Town, had been for some time vacant. The congregation was anxious... | |
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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... 
