 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pagina’s
...cf Agricola. May we not liften with a tender attention to the expiring notes of Waller. The foul's dark cottage, battered, and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that timt has made; Stronger by weaknefs, wifer, men become, AS they draw near to their eternil home : Leaving... | |
 | W. Plees - 1817 - 410 pagina’s
...the following exquisitely beautiful lines pf Waller, which arc sufficient to immortalize his name : ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time bus made. ' Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, ' As we draw near to our eternal home. ' Quitting... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pagina’s
...FOREGOING DIVINE POEMS. WHEN we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite : The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, The body stooping, does herself erect. No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that, unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...following exquisitely beautiful lines of Waller, which alone are sufficient to immortalize his name: " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. " Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, " As we draw near to our eternal home. " Quitting... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pagina’s
...write with more perspicuity and force.—And here we might adopt the sentiments of an eminent poet: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. And now let us pause.—For whom are we sorrowing? Whose eulogj are we attempting to speak... | |
 | 1827 - 918 pagina’s
...has. tiaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more'impressive by Urne: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Let but the poor cadet receive the quantum of professional education imperiously demanded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks llmt Time lias made. scaffolding of the body, may discover the inward structure more plainly. Siekm... | |
 | 1832 - 646 pagina’s
...confining it, and closing up its avemtea of knowledge. Under this mistaken belief the poet sung or said, " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, " Lets in new light, through chinks that lirnc has made. 1 ' Hence have arisen the errors and inconsistences, practical and theoretical, respecting... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 530 pagina’s
...light, quite new and different from what was seen before^ Mr. Waller has borrowed this thought:— " The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." We are surrounded with a great cloud of witnesses, and though we cannot see them, I believe... | |
 | Ann Alexander - 1835 - 288 pagina’s
...onieth to the grave in a full age, ' like as a shock of corn comcth in .n his season .'"—(Job v. 26.) The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness piotit meu become As they draw near to their eternal home; Thus our... | |
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The soul, with nobler resolutions deck'd, The body stooping does herself erect. Clouds of affections from our younger eyes, • Conceal that happiness which age, descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks... 
