 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1857 - 378 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.... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - Poets, English - 1857 - 578 pages
...these different views, and, I nope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be trae, that " ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through fhinV* that time has made.' "Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 636 pages
...telling you of my dreams and omens — to be sure, I did not use to be so credulous ; but remember, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. — [ Waller.] I have so many of those inlets, that no wonder my faith increases ; but adieu, Madam,... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 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. TICKELL AND GOLDSMITH. 191 While speaking of these resemblances of thought, I may notice a curious... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 632 pages
...telling you of my dreams and omens — to be sure, I did not use to be so credulous ; but remember, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...in new light through chinks which time has made.— [Waller.] I have so many of those inlets, that no wonder my faith increases ; but adieu, Madam, I will... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...Alluding to the monument erected to Butler by Alderman Barber. IMITATIOHg. l26 Admire new UgM, &o.] ' 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1864 - 1196 pages
...existence, in this solitud« of the soul, they were not alone, because t lie. Father wot tcith them.* " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks which time hath made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As ihey draw near to their eternal... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 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... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 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.... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 
