 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...beautiful lines of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. " Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, " As we draw near to our eternal home. " Quitting the old,... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pages
...and force. — And here we might adopt the sentiments of an eminent poet : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. And now let us pause. — For whom are we sorrowing? Whose eulogj are we attempting to speak ? What... | |
 | 1826 - 664 pages
...he could indite: • No other theme could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old,... | |
 | 1827 - 918 pages
...beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more 'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the... | |
 | 1827 - 912 pages
...beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded even by the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, [home. As they draw near to their eternal Leaving the old,... | |
 | 1832 - 640 pages
...avenues of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, '• Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made." Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting mental derangement,... | |
 | 1836 - 446 pages
...his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, — " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made! " 1 An admirable commentary on this fierce text is supplied by my friend Mr. Cattermole, at the commencement... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...eloquent and beautiful passage, which at bottom resembles that of Waller, " The soyj's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made."— ED. ('*") This was not Themistocles but Iphicrates, who, at the siege of Corinth, going his rounds... | |
 | 1861 - 980 pages
...in the heavens. Waller's beautiful lines will occur to many readers : — 'The soul's dark cottujjo, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should lie written. (John xxi.... | |
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold... 
