 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1796 - 298 pages
...enly by fuch regularly repeated reviews, by fuch accurate and impartial examinations and deciflons of that internal tribunal, which, God and Reafon have...irrationally, and I think impioufly forgets, the numerous inftances in which we are indebted to the ingenuity of human effort, for comfort to ourfelves, and... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1806 - 320 pages
...body to pieces. Mr. poet Waller's authority is here to my purpose, who tells us, that " The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, " Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." Mr. Gray, likewise, in his Hymn to Adversity, requests that " Daughter of Jove" to impose gently her... | |
 | James Lackington - 1808 - 200 pages
...before, And this they got by their desire to learn. SIR j. DAVIS. • ," The soul's dark cottage batterM and decay'd Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." MEW-YORK: "CBLISHED BY JOHN WILSON AND DANIEL HITT FOR THE METHODIST cONNEcTION. JC TOTTEN, PRINT.... | |
 | 1834 - 374 pages
...chinks of her sickness-brokenDody. ' Waller has versified this in the well-known lines >~ " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. ' An Elder lirother is one, who makes haste to come into the world, to brHrg-hls parents... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1837 - 298 pages
...body to pieces. — Mr poet Waller's authority is here to my purpose, who tells us, that "The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, " Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Mr Gray, likewise, in his Hymn to Adversity, requests that "Daughter of Jove" to impose gently her... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1837 - 300 pages
...to pieces. — Mr poet Waller's authority is here to my purpose, who tells us, that •' The soul's dark cottage batter'd and decay'd, " Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. " Mr Gray, likewise, in his Hymn to Adversity, requests that " Daughter of Jove" to impose gently her... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1848 - 588 pages
...— to be sure, I did not use to be so credulous ; but remember, The soul's dark cottage, battered and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made. 1 have so many of those inlets, that no wonder my faith increases ; but adieu, madam, I will go and... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 pages
...youth and manhood have subsided, introduces the same image into his celebrated lines : — The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd Lets in new light, through chinks which time has made. While speaking of these resemblances of thought, I may notice a curious coincidence between Dryden... | |
 | Flowers - 1855 - 296 pages
...must have weakened his mind, but soon perceived it was only that " The soul's dark cottage, shatter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks which time has made." " Yes, light from heaven," replied Ellen. " For ' though our outward man perish, yet the inward man... | |
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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, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks... 
