| Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 746 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.... | |
| mrs. William Olding - 1882 - 396 pages
...like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." t Or Waller's feeling lines might be better applied — The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. * Beattie. t Job v. 26. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near... | |
| English poetry - 1885 - 686 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... | |
| Alexander Mackennal - Church work with the sick - 1888 - 170 pages
...by sickness, and all the unseen eternal realities appear to open on the horizon of the sufferer. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home."... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...Chaos!] 'Joy to great Caesar.' The beginning of a famous old Song. Ver. 126. Admire new light &*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 ivithinf an? sblood, &*c.]... | |
| John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 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 which time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old,... | |
| 1896 - 1024 pages
...awaited death in the spirit so touchingly set forth in his last poem— written at the age of eighty-two^ "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. Lets in new light, through chinks that time bath madi ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, Ae they draw near to their eternal home... | |
| Thomas Edward Thorpe - 1896 - 438 pages
...lpavlo 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.' " The work to which he here alludes, and which he did not live to see printed,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 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... | |
| Mrs. Mary Harriet Bright Curry - English literature - 1897 - 412 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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