 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
 | 1854 - 268 Seiten
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights 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. They eat Their daily bread, and draw the breath of Heaven... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1854 - 276 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. "It is the most beautiful island that eyes ever beheld."... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 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. TH'E LAST WO EDS. BY MA.EY CF MONCK. THE wintry night had fallen,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 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. ANECDOTE OP MR. MACAULAY. — An amusing — Hnd absurd — anecdote... | |
 | Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 Seiten
...and decayed, Lets in new lights 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." But supposing that the duties we pay to tLe aged are not in themselves... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 Seiten
...battered and 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. WALLER. Beautg of l^olmess, "VT OT all the pomp and pageantry... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 404 Seiten
...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. Miratur limen Olympi. — Vino. OP WALLER'S POEMS. THE POETICAL... | |
 | 1857 - 574 Seiten
...hatter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time bas 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. Besides the life of Waller by Dr. Johnson, which th student of... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 Seiten
...batter'd 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 That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLEB. Wakeful he sits, and lonely and unmoved, Beyond the arrows,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 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. VAUGHAN. HENRY VAUGHAN (1614—1695) published in 1651, a volume... | |
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