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
| George Burgess - Death - 1850 - 348 pages
...and tenderest, is no longer pnin. ' LVI. . light in Christian 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." WAILZR. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 890 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." A few months before his death, Waller purchased a small estate... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...battcr'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. A PANEGYRIC TO THE LORD PROTECTOR. While with a strong and yet... | |
| Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...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... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...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... | |
| Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...batter'd and dccay'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.'' EDMUND WALLER. HAVING satisfied the cravings of nature, Mr.... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 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. WALLER.1 THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL AND SATAN. They ended parle, and... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 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 tho new. A PANEGYRIC TO THE LORD PROTECTOR. While with a strong and yet... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...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 - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 600 pages
...as greatly affected all who saw and heard him 26. 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." — WALLER. THE Rev. Charles Simeon, of Cambridge, fulfilled... | |
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