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" The soul's dark cottage, 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... "
The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors - Seite 397
von Bence Jones - 1871 - 431 Seiten
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 Seiten
...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...
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An Account of the Island of Jersey: Containing a Compendium of Its ...

W. Plees - 1817 - 410 Seiten
...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...
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An account of the island of Jersey

W. Plees - 1824 - 424 Seiten
...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 the old,...
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Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Band 2

Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 Seiten
...Idle. 12. My country — "Good faith with all nations, tangling alliances with none." 13. Myself— " The soul's dark cottage battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chink's, which time has made." To conclude, I j_,ive the following song to the old tune of Yankee doodle...
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A Selection of Eulogies: Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those ...

1826 - 438 Seiten
...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 ? What...
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A Defence of some important doctrines of the Gospel, in twenty-six sermons ...

1826 - 664 Seiten
...he could indite: • No other theme could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, 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,...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its ..., Band 23

1827 - 918 Seiten
...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 even by the...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign ..., Band 23

1827 - 912 Seiten
...has quaintly, but beautifully, expressed this reflection on defects rendered more impressive by time: 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 even by the...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Bände 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that rd, who was twice chosen llmt Time lias made. Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking down Uns...
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.: Late President of the Royal ...

John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 Seiten
...and seem to feel their truth : " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that Time has made." I have, notwithstanding...objects whenever it was in my power, and I have sent the Royal Society a paper which they will publish, on the peculiar electricity of the Torpedo, which...
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