 | 1841 - 300 oldal
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks which 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. THE YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND. Written for the Young Lady's... | |
 | 1843 - 350 oldal
...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. Waller. NIGHT PIECE ON DEATH. How deep yon azure dies the sky,... | |
 | 1855 - 602 oldal
...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 OF MR. MACAULAT. — An amusing — -und absurd — anecdote... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 oldal
...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. There is a real awe and solemnity in these lines; and they move... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 oldal
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser ? @A , nt once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON. Above all the poets of this... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 oldal
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness,4 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. 1 Quiet, calm — That is quiet, which is made so by circumstances,... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 644 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 586 oldal
...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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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... 
