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
| Asia - 1827 - 918 pages
...tiaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more 'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously... | |
| Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...are no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 2 Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...emptiness which age descries: The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and dccay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 3 Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that rd, who was twice chosen llmt Time lias made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down Uns... | |
| Asia - 1827 - 912 pages
...has quaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously... | |
| Medicine - 1832 - 640 pages
...confining it, and closing up its avenues of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, '• Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made." Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting... | |
| William Roberts - Women authors, English - 1834 - 516 pages
...light, quite new and different from what was seen before. Mr. Waller has borrowed this thought ; — ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' We are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses, and though we cannot see them,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1835 - 578 pages
...it,' as far as his observation goes, in regard to intellect, (memory excepted,) the wellknown distich, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which lime has made,' is far more correct. His memory, however, is greatly impaired, and his limbs are feeble.... | |
| Statesmen - 1836 - 446 pages
...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! " 1 An admirable commentary on this fierce text is supplied by my friend Mr. Cattermole,... | |
| Twenty essays - Christian life - 1838 - 212 pages
...immortality, seeks with direct and steady aim, that life which can be found only in God's favour; when— " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks by tempests made." WALLER. But, alas ! such triumphs of the spirit over its weak body are short, and... | |
| Child rearing - 1841 - 300 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...decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks which time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving... | |
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