 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 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 Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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 thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries : ore strong than traitor's arms, Quite vanquish 'd him : then burst his mighty that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Submitting to thy skill, my passive heart Feels that no grief can thy soft power withstand. MRS. TIGHE. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. WALLER. Our time consumes like smoke, and posts away; Nor can we treasure up a... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 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.... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 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.... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 606 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1880 - 564 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 through chinks that time has made." Chinks I am afraid there are, but instead of new light, I find nothiug but " darkness... | |
 | Life - 1880 - 184 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 vwment, worketh for us a far more exceeding... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyce 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. 
