 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
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1870 - 318 Seiten
...with which Edmund Waller. when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul'a dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home ; Leaving... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - 2004 - 324 Seiten
...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"... | |
 | 2005 - 466 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 136 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 the... | |
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