...and a want of exact truth and fidelity of imagination. XIII. WALTON'S LIVES. " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...purest Charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble citizen : 0 could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their...

...and a want of exact truth and fidelity oi imagination. XIII . WALTON'S LIVES. " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...Faith and purest Charity In Statesman, Priest, and humblfi citizen : 0 could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die...

...— ' that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.' WALTON S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : 0 could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die 1 Methinks their...

...a flow of generous sentiment. This volume is a transcript of the author's mind. There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...purest charity In statesman, priest and humble citizen : Oh, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their...

...them has he so exquisitely written, that it has been declared by the greatest poet of our age, that " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing." Having in the course of years retired from business, he gave himself up...

...printed in italics, doubtless with a view of calling the reader's attention to their beauty : — " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing." The idea is certainly felicitous, but it did not originate with Wordsworth...

...favourable light ля a biographer. Wordsworth sayo of them, f The feather whence the pea Was ehttped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Thealuiaand Clearrhus, a Pastoral...

...these ; iht feather whence the pen n'as shaped, that traced tlie livtt of Ilute good men, Droplfrom an angel's wing: with moistened eye, We read of faith,...charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to lire, what happiness to die ! Mcthinka their...

...preferment, — for these and other points we must refer to those pages, of which Wordsworth says, " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's ming ;" — but we cannot resist giving the conclusion ' — (it was after Hooker's...

...bank, A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same." And in one of his Sonnets — " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing," is taken from an Elizabethan poet — Henry Constable : — " The pen...