 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...Kentucky's soil, How shared they with each dauntless hand War's tempest and life's toil.— W. D, Gattaghtr. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. — Walltr. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 382 pages
...the 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.' " Forster's left of Strafford, Lardner's Cabinet CydapaxUa. which, though its head towers above those... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 pages
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It was well and beautifully said by a then living poet, 1 The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.' " Fortter'a Life of Strafford, tariner't Cabinet Cyclopcedta. which, though its head towers above those... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...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 ' '- 1 As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1845 - 488 pages
...above sentence of Dr. Watts would seem to be suggested by the fine couplet of the old poet Waller : — "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made.'1 M. Week Sun Sun i Moon High D. Days. rises. sets. r. &s. Water ready ; and not the least of... | |
 | New England - 1846 - 318 pages
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 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 ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upou the threshold of the uew. JOHN HILTON.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd nnd decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON.... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - 1847 - 146 pages
...blessed.* • " If, (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 - Apparitions - 1847 - 232 pages
...became repossessed 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,... | |
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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... 
