 | 1841 - 300 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 in new light, through chinks which time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...of Melancholy. CLOFDS of affection from our younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness which age descries; "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks which time has made. Stronger by weakness wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home... | |
 | 1843 - 350 páginas
...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....they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Waller. NIGHT PIECE ON DEATH. How deep yon azure dies the sky, Where orbs of gold unnumber'd lie; While,... | |
 | 1855 - 602 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...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ANECDOTE OF MR. MACAULAT. — An amusing — -und absurd — anecdote of Mr. MacHulay is making a tour... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 páginas
...Like the aged Titian, he seems to have been exalted and refined by the thought of approaching death. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. There is a real awe and solemnity in these lines; and they move with the dignity and resignation of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, nt once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON. Above all the poets of this... | |
 | 1844 - 484 páginas
...could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, thro' chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness,...: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new. He had begun to transcribe his fourth sermon ; but illness... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 páginas
...the midst of the breaking of his fortunes. It wus well and beautifully laid 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 Life of SIrafford, Lardncr's Cabinet Cyctopadla. t " A poet, who was present, exclaimed,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson, Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1844 - 978 páginas
...want," added she in a loud voice, and shutting the door with corresponding energy. CHAPTER XIII. • Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. WALLER. ONE fine morning, Joscelyne De Clare stood by the bed-side of his dying friend. It was a bright... | |
 | 1872 - 858 páginas
...instance, for example, may be found in Fuller's approximation to the often-quoted lines of Waller — The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Drawing near her death," says Fuller of of St. Monica, " she sent most pious... | |
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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... 
