 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.  Miscellanies of Edward Fitzgerald - Side 43af Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - 247 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 sider
...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 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. • « •... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 sider
...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 - 422 sider
...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, ,.; .,,. 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." CHAPTER... | |
 | John Gamble - 1813 - 422 sider
...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 draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." CHAPTER... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 sider
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 sider
...descries. The soul's dark cottage, hatter'd and deeay'd. Lets in new light , t hruugh chinks t hat ti me 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... | |
 | 1821 - 786 sider
...will, we trust, add weight to hie advice. " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger...weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eterual home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at ouce they view, That stand upon the threshold of the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 sider
...Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger...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. * * * Aliratar... | |
 | Select poetry - 1825 - 182 sider
...emptiness which age descries : The soul's dark cottage, barter'd and decay'd, 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. cxxx. WHAT... | |
 | 1826 - 664 sider
...other theme could give his soul delight. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light, through chinks that time has made: Stronger...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. He had begun... | |
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