 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul'a dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, I -ft ч ament, old Abbeys, The fairies lost command ; They...priests' babies, But some have changed your land ; upou the threshold of the uew. JOHN HILTON. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - 1847 - 146 pages
...(observes Pope, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) if what Waller says be true, that ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;' then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this scaffolding of the... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1847 - 232 pages
...of somewhat of her own higher power, and, as Waller so beautifully expresses it, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The ancients held this strongly ; none more so than Plato. Just before the death of Socrates he foretold,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 438 pages
...course. MASSINGIR. I FORGET what poet it is, who, speaking of old age, says that The Soul's dark mansion, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; a strange conceit, imputing to the decay of our nature that which results from its maturation. As... | |
 | Thomas SADLER (Ph.D.), John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware - 1848 - 208 pages
...(observes Pope in a letter to Sir Richard Steele,) what Waller says be true, that ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made ;' then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down this scaffolding of... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1873 - 686 pages
...most certainly penetrate the poor shattered mind, realizing the beautiful words, — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Hiss Ormskirko was among the very first who wrote to congratulate Mabel, and to express her indignation... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...in this world ne'er will be. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made, — Stronger by weakness...home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view Who stand upon the threshold of the new. I have a Father in Heaven who is always with me, and whose... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pages
...be found in Waller's Works, 1729, 4to., p. 316. On the foregoing Divine Poems, concluding with — " Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." • * * * " Miratur limen olympi." — Virgil. cfr. " N. & Q." 3rd S. ix. 208. To the passages analogous... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. 2. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time" has made i suffer, by sundry masters and teachers, both at home...found that whether aught was imposed me by them that JOHV HILTOH. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range of English poetry, inferior only... | |
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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... 
