 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 Seiten
...and shines another and the same." Then we have the passage in one of Wordsworth's " Sonnets:"— " The feather whence the pen "Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing;" which has been traced to the following in a sonnet by Dorothy Berry:—... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 Seiten
...Walton" has bequeathed as a legacy to our language. Well writes Wordsworth : " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather whence the pen AVas shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing ; with moisten'd... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 Seiten
...Wns slinped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing; with moitlcn'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and huinblu citizen. Mcthinks tlicir very names s!iino still and bright; Apart like glow-worms in a summer-night,... | |
 | HODGES SMITH - 1857 - 778 Seiten
...Wns slinped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing; with moitlcn'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and huinblu citizen. Mcthinks tlicir very names s!iino still and bright ; Apart like glow-worms in a summer-night,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - 516 Seiten
...not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? "WALTON'S BOOK OF 'LIVES.' " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 Seiten
...admirable as a memorial. I refer to Izaak Walton's Lives, of which the poet has said : " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The...of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing."* Passing to the imaginative side of our literature, there is the sacred prose allegory, " The Pilgrim's... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 Seiten
...exquisite biographies are above all praise, unless it be such praise aa Wordsworth's : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these; the...lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing: witk moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen.... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 Seiten
...exquisite biographies are above all praise, unless it be such praise as Wordsworth's : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these; the...priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their ruild virtues then, What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 Seiten
...admirable as a memorial. I refer to Izaak Walton's Lives, of which the poet has said : ''There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The...of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing."* Passing to the imaginative side of our literature, there is the sacred prose allegory, " The Pilgrim's... | |
 | 1860 - 634 Seiten
...he performed it in a modest and loving spirit. As Wordsworth finely says : — " There are no colors in the fairest sky, So fair as these : the feather...Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In Statesman,... | |
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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. 
