 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...  The Works of ... - Сторінка 390автори: Alexander Pope - 1871Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 стор.
...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... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 стор.
...what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age, to shake down this scaffolding of the body, may discover the inward structure more plainly. Sickness is... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 стор.
...some advantage by it. If what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; then surely sickness, contributing not less than old age to shake down this scaffolding of the body, may discover the inward structure... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 стор.
...advantage by it." If what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; then surely sickness, contributing not less than old age to shake down this scaffolding of the body, may discover the inward structure... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 684 стор.
...epistles, " If what Waller says be true, that The soul' dark cottage, battered and and decay 'd, Lots in new light through chinks that time has made, then...contributing no less than old age to the shaking down of this scaffolding of the body, may discover the inward structure more plainly." " Sickness," he further... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 стор.
...advantage by it. If what Mr. Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made,...contributing no less than old age to the shaking down of this scaffolding of the body, may discover the enclosed structure more plainly. Sickness is a sort... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
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