 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1866 - 248 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. " It is the most beautiful island that eyes ever beheld."... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 496 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. The Builders. 43 Beautiful Clotttu JE CARPENTER.— Music by JH... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 oldal
...battered and decayed, lets in new light through 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. E. WALLER 136 TO A LADY SINGING A SONG OF HIS OWN COMPOSING ^HLORIS,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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. fllarocll. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. TTOW vainly men themselves amaze... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 oldal
...seekers after a 'city' which is to come". Edmund Waller (1605-1687) said: "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." Wordsworth's immortal lines (Intimations of Immortality) are... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 2000 - 468 oldal
...battered and decayed, Lets in new light through 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. The subject remains the same, — the value of the Apostolic office;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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. Denham's most influential work is his descriptive poem, "Cooper's... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 oldal
...batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light through 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. Edmund Waller Life must be measured by thought and action, not... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 oldal
...NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; OPOP; PoE; PoEL-3; PoRA; Prim; SeCP; SeCV-1; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW Bk. IV, 1. 73-78) 67 So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All g stand upon the threshold of the new. (1. 7—12) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoRV; HAP; MePo; NOBE; NOCV; NoP; OBEY;... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1998 - 264 oldal
...Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 272, ll. 15-18: 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 threshhold of the new. 126 Mercenarys mourn. Despite the asterisk, there is no note... | |
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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... 
