 | 1860 - 304 pages
...emptiness which age descries: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new lights thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser,...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. CXVIII. Fair sea ! whose lines of rolling wave, Flash back the gladsome day, And seem, as the broad... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd. Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has made; Stronger hv weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their...old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon tile threshold of the new. Waller's Divine Pocsie. The following letter communicates some further details... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...Literature of Europe," U jr>. Harper's edition 168f>~1688.] WALLER. SI 5 A PANEGYRIC TO MY LORD PROTECIOR While with a strong, and yet a gentle hand, You bridle...hearts command; Protect us from ourselves, and from the foe, Make us unite, and make us conquer too : Let partial spirits still aloud complain ; Think... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 pages
...no permanent home, but are seekers after a 'city' which is to come". Edmund Waller (1605-1687) said: "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw...they view That stand upon the threshold of the new." Wordsworth's immortal lines (Intimations of Immortality) are as follows : "Our birth is but a sleep... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...[Cromwell] : of the present greatness, and joint interest, of His Highness and this nation c. 1655 While with a strong and yet a gentle hand You bridle...hearts command, Protect us from ourselves and from the foe, Make us unite and make us conquer too: Let partial spirits still aloud complain, Think themselves... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 2000 - 468 pages
...Epistle. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they...they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. The subject remains the same, — the value of the Apostolic office; but it is regarded from a new... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...conformity with Dryden's and Addison's definitions: The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made;...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Denham's most influential work is his descriptive poem, "Cooper's Hill," which Dryden called "an exact... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NIP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEY; OBS; OPOP; PoE; PoEL-3; PoRA; Prim; SeCP; SeCV-1; TEP; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW Bk. IV, 1. 73-78) 67 So farewell hope, and with hope,...remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my G (1. 7—12) BLPL; EBEV; FaBoRV; HAP; MePo; NOBE; NOCV; NoP; OBEY; OBS; SeCP; SeCV-1 On a Girdle 5 It... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1998 - 264 pages
...Book," Poems of Edmund Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 272, ll. 15-18: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw...both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new. 126 Mercenarys mourn. Despite the asterisk, there is no note in the manuscript.... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...Conceal that emptiness which age descries. OF LIFE The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 1 Lets in new light through chinks that time has made;...they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. EDMUND WALLER ENGLISH (1606-1687) On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half... | |
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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. 
