...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and dccay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 3 Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WA1XER. NONE UPON BAHTH DESIRED BESIDES CHRIST. 1 How tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no...

...excess, or languor — oftenest death's approach — peril, deep joy, or woe." Browning's Paracelsus. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they^view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." — Edmund Waller. " Drawing near her death,...

...concluded his Divine Poems, " written when he was about eighty years of age," with this couplet : " Leaving the old, both worlds, at once, they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." On which Dryden thus addressed him : " Still here remain, still on the threshold stand, Still at this...

...has quaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the...

...EVENTFUL HISTORY'" OLD AGE AND DEATH. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As tbey draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon...

...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that rd, who was twice chosen llmt Time lias made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down Uns...

...indite. < The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small...

...to indite. The soul-s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small...

...confining it, and closing up its avenues of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, '•...in new light, through chinks that time has made." Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting mental derangement,...

...Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, [home. As they draw near to their eternal Leaving the old, botli worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. THE nose. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows. When 1 resemble...