 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 182
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 1 The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Fortter'a Life of Strafford, tariner't Cabinet Cyclopcedta. which, though its head towers above those... | |
 | 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller : — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.'1 M. Week Sun Sun i Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. &s. Water ready ; and not the least of... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 232
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 146
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...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... | |
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...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... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 130
...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 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,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...*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 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,... | |
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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... 
