 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 - Էջ 345Publius Papinius Statius - 1767Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 էջ
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time ha» made : Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds ut once they view, That ftand upon the threihold of the new. POETICAL WORKS SAMUEL BUTLER. THE LIFE... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 էջ
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks 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. • « • Miratur limett Olytnpi. VIRG. END OP VOL. I. c. WHITriNGHAM,... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 էջ
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made j 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." CHAPTER XVI. <• ... RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 էջ
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft 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." CHAPTER XVI. • -i! •iri.-n t -i" 1 ! •T, RESPECTABLE society... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 էջ
...decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men became, As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new." Pope quotes it from Waller in a letter to Sir R. Steele, on... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 էջ
...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. * * * Aliratar Un1on Olympi.— Virg. EPISTLES. TO THE KING. ON... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 էջ
...barter'd and decay'd, 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. cxxx. WHAT sinners value, I resign ; Lord, 'tis enough that thou... | |
 | 1826 - 664 էջ
...batter'd 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, Who stand upon the threshold of the new. He had begun to transcribe his fourth Sermon: but illness... | |
 | 1797 - 486 էջ
...that time has made. Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become As they draw near to their eternal home j Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That ftand upon the threfhold of the new." COWLEY. Abraham Cowley, our celebrated Engiilh Poet, borrowed his notion of... | |
 | 1828 - 198 էջ
...batter'd and dccay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made. 3 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. WA1XER. NONE UPON BAHTH DESIRED BESIDES CHRIST. 1 How tedious... | |
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