 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1866 - 248 halaman
...— JANEWAY — SIGHT OF JESUS— -DR. OWEN — STEPHEN'S PRAYER — MARGARET WILSON BORDER LANDS. " 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... | |
 | 1867 - 488 halaman
...Springfield, Illinois, securely built into the foundation walls of a house which had just been taken down. — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time has made. — The Memphis Avalanche tells of a German who settled in West Tennessee... | |
 | William Edward Schenck - 1868 - 478 halaman
...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... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 halaman
...poor poet and a purely mechanical versifier. He has lived mainly on the credit of a single couplet, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made," in which the melody alone belongs to him, and the conceit, such as it... | |
 | John D. Minor - 1870 - 434 halaman
...advantageous to knowledge or light of any kind, except as contained in a couplet, I think, of Shenstone— u The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." r But ordinarily, so far as youth is concerned, physical education is just... | |
 | 1870 - 956 halaman
...seq. A Affection Age Age, a Woman's Thoughts on. JOHN FOSTER, Critical Essays, i. 34 (Bonn's edit.). " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made." — WALLER, Verses upon his Divine Poesy. " Oh, sir, I must not tell mine... | |
 | 1870 - 306 halaman
...the lines with which Edmund Waller, when about fourscore years of age, ended his " Divine Poems." " 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 nearer to their eternal... | |
 | 1870 - 774 halaman
...his talents by the poem on Youth and Age, which contains the couplet by which he is best remembered, "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." It may be questioned), whether it is ever in good taste for the editors... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 halaman
...poor poet and a purely mechanical versifier. He has lived mainly on the credit of a single couplet, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made,'* in which the melody alone belongs to him, and the con* Defence of the... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 halaman
...not lost, but extracted, the essences of life. The realities are his, stripped of husks and forms. " 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... | |
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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... 
