 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 страница
...confines of life. " The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,...view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." A few months before his death, Waller purchased a small estate near Coleshill, remarking at the time... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 страница
...tranquillity and devotion, as greatly affected all who saw and heard him 26. REV. CHARLES SIMEON. " Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, Who stand upon the threshold of the new." — WALLER. THE Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambridge, fulfilled... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 страница
...tranquillity and devotion, as greatly affected all who saw and heard him. 25. REV. CHARLES SIMEON. " Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...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... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 страница
...some stanzas of Waller's " Panegyric to the Lord Protector." It is too lengthy to quote entire : — " While with a strong and yet a gentle hand, You bridle...hearts command, Protect us from ourselves, and from the foe, Make us unite and make us conquer too ; "Let partial spirits stilt aloud complain, Think themselves... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 страница
...enabled to exclaim with the poet, The soul's dark cottage, batter'd ami decny'd. Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser...they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the olil. both worlds at once they »iew, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Waller's Dirinc JPotsU.... | |
 | 1851 - 568 страница
...light through chiitks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nigh to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." IThere is another couplet worth citing — " The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ; So calm... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1851 - 92 страница
...and love." And he went on to repeat ; " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in more light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger...become, As they draw near to their eternal home." " Halloo ! " I called out, " got back to the clay cottage again ! " " Only to prove," said he, " how... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James, Maunsell Bradhurst Field - 1852 - 630 страница
...Keelson's house. CHAPTER II. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness,...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLEB. LET us go back for an hour, and enter Keelson's cottage as it appeared in an earlier period... | |
 | 1852 - 874 страница
...LORD PROTECTOR, ' tin Present Greatness, and Joint Interest, of lit* Highness and this Nation. WHtLE o redeem Man's mortal crime, and ji.st the unjust...all Heaven charity so dear V He ask'd, but all th the foe, Make us unite, and make us conquer too ; Let partial spirits, still aloud complain, Think... | |
 | 1853 - 560 страница
...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...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. COLERIDGE. 365 Smrnef, TO THE EIVER OTTER. DEAR uative brook ! wild streamlet of the West ! How many... | |
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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. 
