 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...  Solomon's Little People: A Story about the Ants - Page 27by James Crowther - 1882 - 189 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - Sick - 1848 - 208 pages
...not, then, * " If, (observes Pope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pages
...saving truth did most certainly penetrate the poor shattered mind, realizing the beautiful words, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Hiss Ormskirko was among the very first who wrote to congratulate Mabel, and to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...are no more. For then \ve know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time" has made i Stronger by weakness,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 130 pages
...are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 2. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. *Tuabridg« Wells. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...battered and decayed, L'ets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness wiser men become, •. As they draw near to their eternal... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...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... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, battered aud decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...are no more: For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting thing's, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...are no more: For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Joseph John Freeman - Egypt - 1851 - 552 pages
...illustrating the sentiment of Herbert, of which he frequently reminded me when conversing with him — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. The pulpit of Union Chapel, Cape Town, had been for some time vacant. The congregation... | |
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