John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
348 Samuel Daniel 1562?-1619 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 348 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Daniel (1562?–1619) |
| QUOTATION: | As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | History of the Civil War. Book iv. Stanza 84. |
| Note 1. The soul’s dark cottage, batter’d and decay’d, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Edmund Waller: Verses upon his Divine Poesy. [back] |