 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 - Seite 345von Publius Papinius Statius - 1767Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 Seiten
...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. * AGE smooths our paths to prudence; sweeps aside The... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 Seiten
...batter'd and deeay'd ; Leti in new light through chinks that time hai made: Stronger by weakneM, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at ooce they Tiew That stand npon the threshold of the new." WILLIR. Dr. Watts's Hor. Lyr. "A Sight of... | |
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...battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light thro' chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts; stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. MISSIONS. HOW THEY H1QUT BE SUPPORTED, AND THE RETURNS... | |
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...Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become ' '- 1 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 LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. DR. ALEXANDER, late bishop... | |
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...light through chinka that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw nearer to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new." At the same time, his friends, unable to spare him, could accord... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...and decay'd, I -ft ч in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser bies, But some have changed your land ; stand upou the threshold of the uew. JOHN HILTON. Above all the poets of this age, and, in the whole... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 Seiten
...and decay'd, Lets in new light 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 Who stand upon the threshold of the new. I have a Father in Heaven who is always with me, and whose... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 Seiten
...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. Three poets, in three distant ages born, > Greece, Italy, and... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 340 Seiten
...the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. in CjmMinn 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." WALLER. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 362 Seiten
...the deepest and tenderest, is no longer pain. LVI. ligjrt in C[m0tian " 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." WAILKK. THE idea that the departing spirits of good men are... | |
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