| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 280 pages
...these different views, and hope I have received some advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made ; then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...these different views, and I hope have received some advantage from it, if what Waller says be true, that ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, thro' chinks that time has made.' Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...these different views, and I hope have received some advantage from it, if what Waller says be true, that ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, thro' chinks that time has made.' Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...Waller happily says, " leaving the old," we " stand upon the threshold of the new" world, while Tlie soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : the latest conclusions of such a mind on such a subject as that de Dei cultti,... | |
| Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...these different views, and hope I have received some advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time ha> made; then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this... | |
| 1826 - 316 pages
...these different views, and hope I have received some advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made ; then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...after his death, under the title of "OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS." These, indeed, give evidence that '• Tlie soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time hath made :" and that, as he approached the close of his earthly career, he was advancing... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Physicians - 1829 - 348 pages
...were found after his death, under the title of " OCCASIONAL THOUGHTS." These, indeed, give evidence that "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time hath made :" and that, as he approached the close of his earthly career, he was advancing... | |
| Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...through the chinks of her sickness-brokenDody. ' Waller has versified this in the well-known lines >~ " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. ' An Elder lirother is one, who makes haste to come into the world, to brHrg-hls parents... | |
| John David Macbride - Bible - 1835 - 478 pages
...has been attached to last words, and Christians have often expressed in prose the poet's sentiment, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Hence it followed from this principle, that the body was not only to be brought... | |
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