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 North American Review - Seite 2231868Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Forst&r's Lafe of Stratford, Lai Oner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. which, though its head towers... | |
| 1852 - 512 Seiten
...beams of his glorious presence, as being then even almost in sight."— HOOKER'S Eccles. Pol. BV " 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... | |
| Samuel Henry Dickson - 1852 - 356 Seiten
...that the mind, at the near approach of dissolution, becomes unusually clear, vigorous, and active. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which Time has made.' Excitement of the uncontrolled imagination, as in dreams, and other modes of... | |
| 1853 - 560 Seiten
...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... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...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... | |
| Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...the present, in the sanctified recollection of saints on high/ 5 CHAPTER IV. GLIMPSES OF THE LAND. 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... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1854 - 106 Seiten
...•mill feel what all of us can freely talk about, that " All flesh is grass." Is. xl. 6, 7. But then " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." You will find your piety a pure consolation, an inestimable treasure, so that you can say,... | |
| Martha McCannon Thomas - 1854 - 410 Seiten
...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 ; Leaving... | |
| 1855 - 488 Seiten
...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; Thus our past... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 Seiten
...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. Leaving... | |
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