 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
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 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 1 Leaving... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 Seiten
...concluding with one of his happiest, one of his most characteristic, and one of his bestknown passages : — 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... | |
 | John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1864 - 204 Seiten
...*" If (observes Tope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele), what Waller says be true, that ' The seal'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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small. Horace. Book iii. Ode 1 EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. 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. Verses upon... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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 hath made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become as they draw near to their eternal home, leaving the old, both... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 Seiten
...to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : 59 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 - 1866 - 248 Seiten
...— JANEWAY — SIGHT OF JESUS— -DR. OWEN — STEPHEN'S PRAYER — MARGARET WILSON BORDER LANDS. " 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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