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 392автори: Alexander Pope - 1871Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 стор.
...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 that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 стор.
...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 that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 стор.
...modulation of metaphysical wit into something more in conformity with Dryden's and Addison's definitions: 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... | |
| Sarah Fielding - 2004 - 324 стор.
...as before, with, the rest of the Family at her Heels. 1 Edmund Waller, OH the Divine Poems (1686): The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. 2 "Fowler" (meaning bird-catcher) is probably the name of the gentleman's dog. His "crop-horse" would... | |
| 2005 - 466 стор.
...advantageous to knowledge or light of any kind, except as contained in a couplet, I think, of Shenstone-—• "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." But ordinarily, so far as youth is concerned, physical education is ju-st as necessary to good citizenship... | |
| 136 стор.
...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 that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both... | |
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