 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
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 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. SIC VlTA. LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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. JOHN MILTON: 1608-1674 Milton, among English poets inferior only... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 páginas
...lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WAtLER. "Ddnne ILotie, COULD we forbear dispute, and practise... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 páginas
...lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. JDibme ILofc. COULD we forbear dispute, and practise love,... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 páginas
...seekers after a 'city' which is to come". Edmund Waller (1605-1687) said: "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." Wordsworth's immortal lines (Intimations of Immortality) are... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 2000 - 468 páginas
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath 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. The subject remains the same, — the value of the Apostolic office;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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. Denham's most influential work is his descriptive poem, "Cooper's... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 páginas
...batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath 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. Edmund Waller Life must be measured by thought and action, not... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; OPOP; PoE; PoEL-3; PoRA; Prim; SeCP; SeCV-1; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW Bk. IV, 1. 73-78) 67 So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All g stand upon the threshold of the new. (1. 7—12) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoRV; HAP; MePo; NOBE; NOCV; NoP; OBEY;... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1998 - 264 páginas
...Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 272, ll. 15-18: 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 threshhold of the new. 126 Mercenarys mourn. Despite the asterisk, there is no note... | |
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