 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...  Alienist and Neurologist - Seite 110herausgegeben von - 1884Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 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 celestial home... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 486 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.'" which, though its head towers above those of its companions when they are on... | |
 | 1860 - 634 Seiten
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness that 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.... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 Seiten
...certain to be loft. Clouds of affe&ion from our younger eyes Conceal that emptinefs which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weaknefs, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 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... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 104 Seiten
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it. 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... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1861 - 426 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 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... | |
 | 1861 - 356 Seiten
...my failing flesh and heart; O could I catch a smile from thee, And drop into eternity I C. WESLEY. 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;... | |
 | Z. M. Chandler - 1862 - 240 Seiten
...have left Johns books, and have taken our's and your's. 8. She married my uncle's wife's brother. 9. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 10. Upon his advancing toward me with a whisper, I expected to hear some secret... | |
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