 For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so 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...  The Works of the English Poets - Página 190editado por - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 574 páginas
...hatter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time bas 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 of the new. Besides the life of Waller by Dr. Johnson, which th student of... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 páginas
...batter'd and decay'd, 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 of the new. 130 VAUGHAN. HENRY VAUGHAN, descended from a Welsh family, was... | |
 | Caroline Snowden Guild - 1860 - 366 páginas
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weaknefs, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home...both worlds at once they view, That ftand upon the threfhold of the new. Waller. Died in 1687. HUMILITY. O! LEARN that it is only by the lowly The paths... | |
 | 1860 - 304 páginas
...battered and decayed, Lets in new lights thro' 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 of the new. CXVIII. Fair sea ! whose lines of rolling wave, Flash back the... | |
 | 1860 - 784 páginas
...batter'd and decay'd. Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made; Stronger hv weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home....Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon tile threshold of the new. Waller's Divine Pocsie. The following letter communicates some... | |
 | 1860 - 634 páginas
...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 of the new." This was the flashing up of the candle in the socket before going... | |
 | John Bernard Burke - 1860 - 608 páginas
...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 of the new." Let us now pass over some seventy years, and come to Beaconsfield's... | |
 | 1861 - 356 páginas
...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 of the new. WALLER. The aged Christian stands upon the shore Of time, a storehouse... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...batter'd and decay' d, 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 of the new. — Waller. (Bptrtifln. Opinion is mistress of the world. —... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...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 of the new. Fenton, his editor, tells us that a number of poems on religious... | |
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