 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
 | Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boost Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. inces also shall •worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | 564 pages
...of her sickness-broken body. Waller has versified this in the well-known lines : Tho кшГэ dai-k cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. Plutarch, and after him Montaigne, relate a story, scarcely credible, of the sagacity of the fox. The... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 382 pages
...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.' " Forster's left of Strafford, Lardner's Cabinet CydapaxUa. which, though its... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...Kentucky's soil, How shared they with each dauntless hand War's tempest and life's toil.— W. D, Gattaghtr. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Walltr. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pages
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 1 The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Fortter'a Life of Strafford, tariner't Cabinet Cyclopcedta. which, though its... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " 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 nearer to their eternal home;... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1845 - 488 pages
...above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller : — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.'1 M. Week Sun Sun i Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. &s. Water ready ; and not... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal... | |
 | John Mason Neale - Apparitions - 1847 - 232 pages
...became repossessed of somewhat of her own higher power, and, as Waller so beautifully expresses it, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The ancients held this strongly ; none more so than Plato. Just before the death... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - 1847 - 146 pages
...blessed.* • " If, (observes Pope, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) 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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