| Charles Lamb - 1913 - 596 pages
...heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sicknessbroken body." * 1 The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...lights through chinks which time has made.— WALLER. Mortality. — " To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body, no less are thoughts... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 pages
...Parent. — " For his love, therein, like a well drawn picture, he eyes all his children alike." 1 The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets...lights through chinks which time has made. — WALLER. VOL. I. — 8 Deformity in Children. — "This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 pages
...the sediment of a past life. Sydney Smith used to quote with delight the beautiful lines of Waller : "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made." Sydney Smith was one of the most cheerful of men. At seventy-five he wrote : "... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1928 - 236 pages
...Parent.—' For his love, therein, like a well-drawn 30 picture, he eyes all his children alike.' 1 The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. Lets...new lights through chinks which time has made.— Deformity in Children.—' This partiality is tyranny, when parents despise those that are deformed;... | |
| 1813 - 684 pages
...party wilh them cairitd. Perhaps the time U now come : « The .- « The foul's dark cottage, battcr'd and decay'd, -Lets in new lights through chinks which...WALLER. " Through the flaws and breaches, the yawning chafms fas they are termed by Mr. Burke], which the events of the times' have made in the civil and... | |
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