 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...indite, Is by her glafs inftructed how to write. * Paris. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our...emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...no more ! Far then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Ckwb of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness, which age descries. The tool's dark cottage, hatter'd and dccay'd, Let* in new light, through chinks that time has made : Stranger... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...passions are no more ; • • ' for then we know how vain it were to boast . , / Of fleeting things so certain to be lost; , Clouds of affection from...emptiness which age descries ; The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft time has made ,Stronger by weakness, wiser... | |
 | John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...we when passions are no more i For then we know how vain it were to boast . . , Of fleeting things so certain to be lost ; , Clouds of affection from...younger eyes, Conceal that emptiness which age descries i The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...(Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The soul's dark cottaye, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men became, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That... | |
 | W. Plees - Jersey - 1817 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...when passions are no mure ! For then we know how vain' it was to bo;ist Of fleeting things, so curtain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes...emptiness, which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and deeay'd. Lets in new light , t hruugh chinks t hat ti me has made : Stronger by weakness,... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pages
...following exquisitely beautiful lines of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name : " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets...that time has made. " Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, " As we draw near to our eternal home. " Quitting the old, at once both worlds they view... | |
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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... 
