 THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.  Bentley's Miscellany - Strana 256úprava: - 1840Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 616
...Ecclesiastical Sketches^ and in a strain worthy of the subject. There are no colours in the fairest sky • -i t So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped...wing. With moistened eye ; We read of faith and purest chanty In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtu'es, then What joy... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - Počet stránok 564
...the feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the Lives of these good men, Droptfrom an angeCs wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest...copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 410
...H-.-ii ry Wot ton, and Bishop Sanderson — aod is thus described by Wontsworth — There an no uiluuis in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wine. With moistened eye We read of fauh and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and irambie Citizen.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - Počet stránok 308
...these. The feather, whence the pen Book of Was shaped that traced the lives of thesegood men, **lves Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We...purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - Počet stránok 330
...HILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. ' 11 DCCC XXXII. ' THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 336
...BILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXII. i " THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - Počet stránok 548
...Donne, and Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable* light as a biographer. Wordsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an angePn wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Theahna and Clearchus,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - Počet stránok 600
...fairest iky, So fair u these ; the feather of fail pen Dropt from an angel's wing : with moisten'd eye. We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! conld we copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die 1 Methinks their very... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - Počet stránok 240
...Tir'd of the world and all its industry. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. ' WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. (From the same.) THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shap'd that trac'd the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We... | |
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