 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...Alluding to the monument erected to Butler by Alderman Barber. IMITATIONS. la8 Admire new light, &c.] ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' And while on Fame's triumphal car they ride, Some slave of mine be pinion'd to... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
...these different views ; and I hope, I have received some advantage by it. If what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made . then surely sickness, contributing not less than old age to shake down this scaffolding... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...Reflections; reflections, what? nothing that I ever could find — nor can I well agree with Waller that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. Chinks I am afraid there are, but, instead of new light, I find nothing... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...Reflections; reflections, what? nothing that I ever could find — nor can I well agree with Waller that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. Chinks I am afraid there are, but, instead of new light, I find nothing... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Agricultural chemistry - 1839 - 508 pages
...majora canamus.' I sometimes think of the lines of Waller, and seem to feel their truth — •• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." " I have, notwithstanding my infirmities, attended to scientific objects whenever... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...; reflections, what ? nothing that I ever could find — nor can I well agree with Waller, that P " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Ch1nks I am afraid there are, but instead of new light, I find nothing but darkness... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...different views ; and I hope, I have received some advantage by it. If what •Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; then surely sickness, contributing jiot less than old age to shake down this scaffolding... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...weil till within a ghert time of his death, whick took place J ilh Seplb. 1814. (Cunningham's B. //.) The soul's dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 1. To PERPETRATE, 2. COMMIT. 1. 2lueu6cn, ijeruben ; 2. tfyim, auêit&en, begehen,... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...to be lost. Clouds of affection, from our younger eyes, Conceal that 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 men become, As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...- . ., -,„ Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that 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 men become ' '- 1 As they draw near to their eternal... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 
