 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
 | Martha McCannon Thomas - Women authors, American - 1854 - 410 pages
...great change to be near, and is preparing for it, but he makes no allusion to it before his family. " 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1855 - 670 pages
...salutat. His latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi: 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.... | |
 | Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 488 pages
...principles; he cometh to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season ! JOB v. 26. The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness pious men become As they draw near to their eternal home;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...salutat. His latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi : 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.... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 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...soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...happiness through the chinks of her 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. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home."... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...of happiness through the chinks of her 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. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home."... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...last age are like Almanacs of the last year. 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. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 598 pages
...reprinted in the third volume of Elite's Specimens of the Early English Poets. PH The striking couplet— " The Soul's dark Cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made," — is from Waller'* Epilogue to his Poems of Divine Love. See " N. & Q.," 1st... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...of happiness through the chinks of her 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. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home."... | |
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