 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...EVENTFUL HISTORY'" OLD AGE AND DEATH. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As tbey draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 496 pages
...indite. < The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made : Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small... | |
 | William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...to indite. The soul-s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light by chinks that time hath made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Thus it is common with persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting, overlooking, and taking small... | |
 | Medicine - 1832 - 640 pages
...confining it, and closing up its avenues of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, '•...in new light, through chinks that time has made." Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting mental derangement,... | |
 | William Roberts - Women authors, English - 1834 - 516 pages
...light, quite new and different from 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 pages
...enabled to exclaim with the poet, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness,...wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal borne. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Waller's... | |
 | William Roberts - Authors, English - 1835 - 516 pages
...light, quite new and different from 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 hag made." We are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses, and though we cannot see them, I believe... | |
 | Hannah More, William Roberts - Authors, English - 1835 - 552 pages
...different from what was seen before. Mr. Waller has borrowed this thought : — " The soul's dark cettage, 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1835 - 578 pages
...it,' as far as his observation goes, in regard to intellect, (memory excepted,) the wellknown distich, 'The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which lime has made,' is far more correct. His memory, however, is greatly impaired, and his limbs... | |
 | Statesmen - 1836 - 446 pages
...midst of the breaking of 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... | |
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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... 
