 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 Thebaid of Statius - Page 345by Publius Papinius Statius - 1767Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...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." — Edmund Waller. " Drawing near her death,... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As tbey draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, And stand upon the threshold of the new. WiLLEE. " MAN that is born of a woman, hath but a short time... | |
 | 1838 - 516 pages
...batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light throngh 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, Who stand upon the threshold of the new. BY DR. CHALMERS. PALEY is best on the historical evidences... | |
 | Child rearing - 1841 - 300 pages
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks which 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 YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND. Written for the Young Lady's... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...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. NIGHT PIECE ON DEATH. How deep yon azure dies the sky,... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...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. ANECDOTE OF MR. MACAULAT. — An amusing — -und absurd — anecdote... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...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. There is a real awe and solemnity in these lines; and they move... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser ? @A , nt once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON. Above all the poets of this... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time hath made: Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal...both worlds at once they view, That ftand upon the threfhold of the new." Compare Sbakfpeare's King Richard II. ii. I. O. p. 197. OR more fully, thus:... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,4 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 Quiet, calm — That is quiet, which is made so by circumstances,... | |
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