 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...sickness-broken body;" and Waller versifies the same idea: " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made....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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...sickness-broken body ; " and Waller versifies the same idea : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made....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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. Verses upon his Divine Poesy. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,* Lets in new light through chinks that time has made....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... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1857 - 378 pages
...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...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Miratur limen Olympi. — VIRG. END OF WALLER'S POEMS. THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIE JOHN DENHAM. LIFE... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. POPE, [BOKN 1688 — DIED 1744.] POPE. ABOUT a century and a half ago a Eoman Catholic family took... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 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...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Miratur limen Olympi. — Vino. OP WALLER'S POEMS. THE POETICAL WORKS SIR JOHN DENHAH, LIFE OF SIR... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made:...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. VAUGHAN. HENRY VAUGHAN (1614—1695) published in 1651, a volume of miscellaneous poems, chiefly of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...the emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness,...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER, 31. THE BENEDICITE PARAPHRASED. YE works of God, on him alone, In earth his footstool, heaven... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...KOUNDELL PALMEB. WISDOM OF 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...they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLEB. Wakeful he sits, and lonely and unmoved, Beyond the arrows, views, or shouts of men ; As oftentimes... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...: — The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time bas made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Besides the life of Waller by Dr. Johnson, which th student of literary biography cannot read without... | |
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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. 
