 | 1846 - 586 páginas
...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 stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. THE LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. DR. ALEXANDER, late bishop of Jerusalem, was born of Jewish parents,... | |
 | 1846 - 318 páginas
...chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new." At the same time, his friends, unable to spare him, could accord with the verses... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal st friend, at upou the threshold of the uew. JOHN HILTON. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range... | |
 | 1872 - 676 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...chinks that time" has made i 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 of the new. JOHV HILTOH. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole range of English poetry, inferior only... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...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 of the new. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 páginas
...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 of the new. WALLER.1 THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND SATAN. They ended parle, and both addressed for fight Unspeakable... | |
 | 1851 - 568 páginas
...chiitks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nigh to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." IThere is another couplet worth citing — " The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ; So calm... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...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 of the new. MILTON. 1608—1674. Milton was educated with great care, and was designed for the church; but did... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...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 of the new. HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT." WHO knows, when he to go from home, Departeth... | |
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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 of the new. 
