 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Hymns - 1866 - 436 pages
...to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal'd 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... | |
 | Letter writing - 1867 - 230 pages
...these different views : and I hope I have received some advantage by it, if what Walker 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... | |
 | Edward Riches De Levante - 1869 - 296 pages
...owl began to screech, and the dog, to howl. The whole of our party paid a visit to Shanklin Chine. " The soul's dark, cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets...in new light through chinks which time has made." 22. GH, PH, &C. The character of boys reveals itself during their play. The chiropodist has extracted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Chaos I] 'Joy to great Cxsar/ The beginning of a famous old Song. Ver. 126. Admire new light fy*c.] 'The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.' Waller. [Lines On his Divine Poems.] Ver. 142. Dropping with infant s blood, &c.]... | |
 | Not - Death - 1869 - 168 pages
...draughts — prelibations from the river of life, to refresh their spirits in the closing conflict.s7 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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... | |
 | Life - 1870 - 188 pages
...Your faith grows firmer ; your hope stronger ; your love deeper ; your views clearer. The soul's poor cottage, batter"d and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for ^ls a far more exceeding... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1872 - 508 pages
...beyond the far horizon, beyond the world of shadows to the region of realities. It is as Waller says : The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. The returned Jews, when they heard once more the old familiar words of the law,... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 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.... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - Spiritualism - 1875 - 322 pages
...escape them f " — History and Reality of Apparitions, by Andrew Moreton, Esq., p. 218. London : 1735" The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which Time hath made." Edmund Waller. " All who read this, I exhort in the Name of the Most Sacred Majesty of... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 
