| Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...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. • « • Miratur limett Olytnpi. VIRG. END OP VOL. I. c. WHITriNGHAM, Priflwr, Union Buildings, Leather... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...has made : Stranger by weakness, wiser men become, A» they draw near to their eternal home : Laving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Miratur limen Olympi. Virg. EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, AND FRAGMENTS. EPIGRAM'. Soars emigrans solitis, comitatus... | |
| John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...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 XVI. <• ... RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland is divided into two great classes.... | |
| John Gamble - Ireland - 1813 - 422 pages
...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 XVI. • -i! •iri.-n t -i" 1 ! •T, RESPECTABLE society in the North of Ireland is divided... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...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 stand upon the threshhold of the new." Pope quotes it from Waller in a letter to Sir R. Steele, on his sickness ;... | |
| 1821 - 788 pages
...chiuks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become Ai they draw near to their eterual home ; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." No. III. To the Kditor of the Time». SIR, The friends of the late Rev. Dr. Lindsay cannot but feel... | |
| Select poetry - English poetry - 1825 - 182 pages
...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 sinners value, I resign ; Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine ; I shall behold thy blissful... | |
| Religious poetry - 1828 - 198 pages
...chinks that time has made. 3 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. WA1XER. NONE UPON BAHTH DESIRED BESIDES CHRIST. 1 How tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no... | |
| Edmund Calamy - Dissenters, Religious - 1829 - 534 pages
...concluded his Divine Poems, " written when he was about eighty years of age," with this couplet : " Leaving the old, both worlds, at once, they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new." On which Dryden thus addressed him : " Still here remain, still on the threshold stand, Still at this... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, [home. As they draw near to their eternal Leaving the old, botli worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. THE nose. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows. When 1 resemble... | |
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