 | 1860 - 304 oldal
...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. CXVIII. Fair sea ! whose lines of rolling wave, Flash back the... | |
 | 1860 - 634 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." This was the flashing up of the candle in the socket before going... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 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. Fenton, his editor, tells us that a number of poems on religious... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 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. (Bptrtifln. Opinion is mistress of the world. —... | |
 | 1861 - 356 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. The aged Christian stands upon the shore Of time, a storehouse... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1861 - 426 oldal
...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. RAREY-FACTION. Jones has been shut np in the stable with his... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 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. Fenton, his editor, tells us that a number of poems on religious... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 oldal
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time hath 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." Compare Shalapeare's King Richard II., ii. 1. waking that kills... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 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. Fenton, his editor, tells us that a number of poems on religious... | |
 | 1864 - 334 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. EDMUND WALLER, 1605-1687. THE WORLD. SOME call the world a dreary... | |
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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... 
