| Publius Papinius Statius - 1773 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...bis Death, which Circumitances brings to my Remembrance four Lines of the celebrated Waller, Wifer Men become, As they draw near to their eternal Home, Leaving the old, both Worlds at orce they view, That Hand upon the Threfhold of the new. Alas ! how chang'd from him, who great and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...indite, Is by her glafs inftructed how to write. * Paris. The foul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time ha» made : Stronger by weaknefs, wifer men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds ut once they view, That ftand upon the threihold of the new. POETICAL WORKS SAMUEL BUTLER. THE LIFE... | |
| Edmund Waller - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through clunks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. • « • Miratur limett Olytnpi. VIRG. END OP VOL. I. c. WHITriNGHAM, Priflwr, Union Buildings, Leather... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...has made : Stranger by weakness, wiser men become, A» they draw near to their eternal home : Laving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Miratur limen Olympi. Virg. EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, AND FRAGMENTS. EPIGRAM'. Soars emigrans solitis, comitatus... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...other useful knowledge. The lines are Mr. Waller's, and in the best manner of that very refined writer. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, " Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made.... | |
| John Gamble - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...age descries ; The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks th;ft time has made ,Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." CHAPTER XVI. • -i! •iri.-n t -i" 1 ! •T, RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland is divided... | |
| John Gamble - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks thift time has made j Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, .,. As they...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." CHAPTER XVI. <• ... RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland is divided into two great classes.... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...(Mark the last two lines !) Waller, also, has it, — " The soul's dark cottaye, batter'd and 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... | |
| W. Plees - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...the following exquisitely beautiful lines pf Waller, which arc sufficient to immortalize his name : ' The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, ' Lets in new light through chinks that time bus made. ' Stronger by weakness, wiser we become, ' As we draw near to our eternal home. ' Quitting... | |
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