 | 1813 - 734 pages
...lights through chinks whick time has made. ' " Through the flaws and breaches, the yawning chafms (a» they are termed by Mr. Burke), which the events of the times have made in the civil and ecelefiaftical ¡'Jlitutions of almoft every country, a flood of light feems to break in, and to point... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...distance ; to be always near in constant attendance, and always to stand aloof in awful observance." * The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...lights through chinks which time has made. WALLER. Elder Brother. — " Is one who made haste to come into the world to bring his parents the first news... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 372 pages
...them carried. Perhaps the •• time is now come : " The souVs dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights through chinks which time has made."...the events of the times have made in the civil and ec" clesiastical institutions of almost every country, a flood " of light seems to break in, and to... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 pages
...dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights through chinks which lime has made.'" WALIEK. " Through the .flaws and breaches, the yawning " chasms,...the events of the times have made in the civil and ec" clesiastical institutions of almost every country, a flood " of light seems to break in, and to... | |
 | Health - 1830 - 336 pages
...REFLECTIONS, &C. ON THE LAST SCENE, " WHICH ENDS THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY'" OLD AGE AND DEATH. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As tbey draw near to their eternal home;... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
..." paulo mqjora canamus:' I sometimes think of the lines of Waller, and seem to feel their truth : " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that Time has made." I have, notwithstanding my infirmities, attended to scientific objects whenever... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
..."paulo majora canamus." I sometimes think of the lines of Waller, and seem to feel their truth : " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that Time has made." I have, notwithstanding my infirmities, attended to scientific objects whenever... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...lordling husband shall at the same time command her presence and distance ; to be always near in « " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...in new lights through chinks which time has made." WALLKB. constant attendance, and always to stand aloof in awful observance." Elder brother. — " Is... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 376 pages
...Bishop Fletcher. — " His pride was rather on him than in him, as only gait and gesture deep, not * The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks which time has inmle. WALLER. sinking to his heart, though causelessly condemned for a proud man, as who was a good... | |
 | Rugby coll. of the deaf and dumb - 1845 - 180 pages
...DUMB BEFORE EDUCATION. Subject proposed by THOMAS TURNER, Esq., Manchester. " The soul's dark prison, batter'd and decay'd, Lets In new lights through chinks which time has made." BUT there are no chinks in the prisons of those who are shut out from the usual way of communion with... | |
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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body, no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. 
