 | Catherine Sinclair - Life - 1847 - 400 pages
...dawn of an eternal morning, his view extends into the real scenes and dazzling glories of eternity. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made." WALLEB. Among the friends of the late Lady M S , it is often remembered, with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...as finding but small satisfaction in what a famous Poet reckons one of the advantages of old age : " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." SCRIBL. — Warbnrton. At half mankind when generous Manly raves, All know 'tis... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...these dif-. ferent views, and, I hope, 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 thro' chinks that Time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...storms of youth and manhood have subsided, introduces the same image into his celebrated lines : — The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd Lets in new light, through chinks which time has made. While speaking of these resemblances of thought, I may notice a curious coincidence between Dryden... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1884 - 668 pages
...1821, we referred to Byron's tragedy as the only work answering the conditions. HERMAN MKRIVALE. — " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The parallel between Waller and Fuller to which you refer has been the subject... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...certain 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 i Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...certain 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.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1851 - 568 pages
...occurs in the epilogue to his " Poems of Divine Love," and " Of the Fear of God," &c., thus : — " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chiitks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nigh to their eternal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 pages
...these different views, and, I hope, 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 no Jess than old age to the shaking down this... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...these different views, and, I hope, 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, no less than old age, to the shaking down this... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 
