 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 Works of the English Poets: Waller - Страница 228по Samuel Johnson - 1779Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 страници
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks 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 limett Olytnpi. VIRG. END OP VOL. I. t THE... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 518 страници
...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. BUTLER. C/ELEBKATED as Samuel Butler, the author of Hudibras,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 страници
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made : Srooger 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. Virg. EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, AND FRAGMENTS.... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 страници
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft time has made ,Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, ,.; .,,. As they draw near to their eternal...Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." CHAPTER XVI. • -i! •iri.-n t -i" 1 ! •T, RESPECTABLE society... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 страници
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made j Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, .,. As they draw near to their eternal...Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." CHAPTER XVI. <• ... RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland... | |
 | 1832 - 508 страници
...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. THE YOUTHS' MAGAZINE; OR lEbangeltcal FEBRUARY, 1844. THE JEWS... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 страници
...decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men became, 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." Pope quotes it from Waller in a letter to Sir R. Steele, on... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 358 страници
...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, Tbt stand upon the threshold of the new. • • • MuHi.,t limen Olympi. rirg. EPISTLES. TO THE A'/JVG.... | |
 | 1821 - 788 страници
...decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become Ai they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." No. 111. To the Editor of the Tmei. SIR, The friends of the late... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 страници
...batter'd and decay'd, Letsinnew lightthrough chinks thattime 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. * * * Miratar limen Olympi.—Virg. EPISTLES. TO THE KING. ON... | |
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