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: Waller - Página 228por Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Burgess - 1850 - 340 páginas
...the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. in CjmMinn leafy. « Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." WALLER. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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 tho new. A PANEGYRIC TO THE LORD PROTECTOR. Let partial spirits still aloud... | |
| Christian poets - 1851 - 490 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. HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT." WHO... | |
| Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 páginas
...batterM 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.' ' EDMI'XD WALLEH. HAVING satisfied the cravings of nature, Mr.... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...battered and decayed, L'ets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness wiser men become, •. As they draw near to their eternal...Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. MILTON. 1608—1674. Milton was educated with great care, and... | |
| Christian poets - 1851 - 470 páginas
...battered aud 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. HOLD UP MY GOINGS IN THY PATHS, THAT MY FOOTSTEPS SLIP NOT." WHO... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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. 1 THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND SATAN. They ended parle, and... | |
| 1851 - 320 páginas
...battered and decayed, Lets in new lights 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 FIRST. A LOVELY and a languid hour, Long is the shadow... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 páginas
...greatly affected all who saw and heard him. 25. REV. CHARLES SIMEON. " Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who staud upon the threshold of the new."—WALLER. THE Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambridge, fulfilled... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 páginas
...as greatly affected all who saw and heard him 25. REV. CHARLES SIMEON. "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." — WAIXEB. THE Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambridge, fulfilled... | |
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