 | W. Plees - 1824 - Počet stránok 424
...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 - Počet stránok 438
...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 - Počet stránok 664
...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 - Počet stránok 918
...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 - Počet stránok 912
...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... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1832 - Počet stránok 482
...Christian ; could you know only so much as I know, you could not refrain from rejoicing, and even 1 ' The soul's dark cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made.' leaping for joy. Labours, trials, troubles, would be nothing : you would rejoice... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 640
...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,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - Počet stránok 516
...what was seen before. Mr. Waller has borrowed this thought : — " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." We are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses, and though we cannot see them, I believe they see... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 446
...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... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 980
...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... 
