| William Edward Schenck - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our 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. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the Old, at... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...modulation of metaphysical wit into something more in conformity with Dryden's and Addison's definitions: 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... | |
| Sarah Fielding - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...as before, with, the rest of the Family at her Heels. 1 Edmund Waller, OH the Divine Poems (1686): The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 2 "Fowler" (meaning bird-catcher) is probably the name of the gentleman's dog. His "crop-horse" would... | |
| 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...advantageous to knowledge or light of any kind, except as contained in a couplet, I think, of Shenstone-—• "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." But ordinarily, so far as youth is concerned, physical education is ju-st as necessary to good citizenship... | |
| عدد الصفحات: 136
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our 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: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both... | |
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