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" 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 27
by James Crowther - 1882 - 189 pages
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1842 - 1008 pages
...rich ; if sick and poor, moderate thyself — 1 hare said. — BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy. CLOFDS of affection from our younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness...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 ; tearing...
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Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural ...

1843 - 350 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 through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 112

American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...instance, for example, may be found in Fuller's approximation to the often-quoted lines of Waller — The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Drawing near her death," says Fuller of of St. Monica, " she sent most pious thoughts to...
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The Dial, Volume 4

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It wus well and beautifully laid by a then living poet, ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Forster's Life of SIrafford, Lardncr's Cabinet Cyctopadla. t " A poet, who was...
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The Living Age, Volume 245

1905 - 1004 pages
...Like the aged Titian, he seems to have been exalted and refined by the thought of approaching death. 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,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...salutat. His latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi : 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....
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Sunset; or, The evening of life [extracts].

Sunset - 1845 - 120 pages
...are no more. For then we know, how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to he 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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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection2 from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries, The soul's dark cottage,3 battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,4...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

1846 - 586 pages
...we know how vain it was to boast . Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. . , .i. - - . ., -,„ 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...
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