 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 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. (Bptrtifln. Opinion is mistress of the world. — Italian Proverb. There is a tide in the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 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,...verses refer, were mostly written when he was about [above] eighty years old; and he has himself intimated that his bodily faculties were now almost gone... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pages
...recalled, perhaps, the dying poet's last two lines in the ' Of the last verses in the Book ' : — ' Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.' And Pope, in his epitaph, has perfected the idea : — ' Calmly he looked on either life, and here... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...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. Fenton, his editor,...which these verses refer, were mostly written when ho was about [above] eighty years old ; and ho has himself intimated that his bodily faculties were... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home 1 Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. EXERCISE XII. ! Death of Adam and Eve. — MONTGOMERY. The sun in summer majesty on high, Darted his... | |
 | 1864 - 334 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. EDMUND WALLER, 1605-1687. THE WORLD. SOME call the world a dreary place, And tell long tales of sin... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 366 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. Walkr. ON THE DEATH OF CATHERINE THOMSON. Faith and Love, which parted from thee never, Had ripen'd... | |
 | Lewis Borrett White - 1864 - 232 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. JOHN DRYDKN. BORN AD 1631 ; DIED AD 1700. DRYDEN has few claims to a place in a collection of sacred... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 206 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. 'C I fr (/ X ' 'Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 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. EDMUND WALLER, 1605-1687. THE WORLD. SOME calj the world a dreary place, And tell long tales of sin... | |
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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. 
