 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
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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;... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 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...emptiness, which Age descries. The Soul's dark Cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 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...emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made; Stronger by weakness,... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - Fiction - 2004 - 324 pages
...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.... | |
 | Religion in the public schools - 2005 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | 136 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.... | |
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