 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1855 - 670 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. TH'E LAST WO EDS. BY MA.EY CF MONCK. THE wintry night had fallen, the sleet drove thick and fast, •... | |
 | Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 pages
...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." But supposing that the duties we pay to tLe aged are not in themselves sources of pleasure — that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 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. ANECDOTE OP MR. MACAULAY. — An amusing — Hnd absurd — anecdote of Mr. Macaulay is making a tour... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 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. WALLER. Beautg of l^olmess, "VT OT all the pomp and pageantry of worlds Reflect such glory on the eye... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 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 ne\v. A PANEGYRIC TO THE LORD PROTECTOR. Let partial spirits still aloud complain, Think themselves... | |
 | Roswell Park - American poetry - 1857 - 338 pages
...chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw near to their celestial home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new." WALLER. AROUND the theatre of time, I gaze upon a scene sublime, And glance from earth to sky ; My... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...chinks that time bas 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. Besides the life of Waller by Dr. Johnson, which th student of literary biography cannot read without... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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. WALLER, 31. THE BENEDICITE PARAPHRASED. YE works of God, on him alone, In earth his footstool, heaven... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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. VAUGHAN. HENRY VAUGHAN (1614—1695) published in 1651, a volume of miscellaneous poems, chiefly of... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham - 1857 - 380 pages
...chinks that time has made ; Strouger 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 limea Oly mpi. — YlRO. END OF WALLER'S POEMS. THE POETICAL WORKS OF SIR JOHN DENHAM. * LIFE... | |
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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. 
