 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 páginas
...cf Agricola. May we not liften with a tender attention to the expiring notes of Waller. The foul's dark cottage, battered, and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that timt has made; Stronger by weaknefs, wifer, men become, AS they draw near to their eternil home : Leaving... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 páginas
...the following exquisitely beautiful lines pf Waller, which arc sufficient to immortalize his name : ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time bus made. ' Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, ' As we draw near to our eternal home. ' Quitting... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 páginas
...following exquisitely 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,... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 páginas
...Idle. 12. My country — "Good faith with all nations, tangling alliances with none." 13. Myself— " The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chink's, which time has made." To conclude, I j_,ive the following song to the old tune of Yankee doodle... | |
 | 1826 - 438 páginas
...write with more perspicuity 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...tiaintly, but 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 páginas
...has quaintly, but 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that rd, who was twice chosen llmt Time lias made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down Uns... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 páginas
...and seem to feel their truth : " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that Time has made." I have, notwithstanding...objects whenever it was in my power, and I have sent the Royal Society a paper which they will publish, on the peculiar electricity of the Torpedo, which... | |
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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... 
