 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...  Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England - Página 1441870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1853 - 462 páginas
...tabernacle sometimes reveals glimpses of this glory, even here. The soul's poor cottage, shattered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. The conflict has ended. How else can we explain the words, "Death is swallowed up in victory?1' Rest,... | |
 | Martha McCannon Thomas - 1854 - 410 páginas
...great change to be near, and is preparing for it, but he makes no allusion to it before his family. " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1854 - 276 páginas
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...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... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 276 páginas
...the present, in the sanctified recollection of saints on high/ 5 CHAPTER IV. GLIMPSES OF THE LAND. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...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... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1854 - 106 páginas
...•mill feel what all of us can freely talk about, that " All flesh is grass." Is. xl. 6, 7. But then " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." You will find your piety a pure consolation, an inestimable treasure, so that you can say, whatever... | |
 | 1854 - 268 páginas
...the emptiness which age descries : 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 they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 páginas
...the emptiness which age descries: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 páginas
...salutat. His latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi : The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 páginas
...salutat. His latest lines, if not quite sublime or pathetic, are all but both. Miratur limen Olympi: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...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... | |
 | 1855 - 488 páginas
...principles; he cometh to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season ! JOB v. 26. The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets...through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness pious men become As they draw near to their eternal home; Thus our past life, when virtuously spent,... | |
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