 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.  Notes and Queries - Página 2331871Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Dennis - 1873 - 280 páginas
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. 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. With moistened eye We read of Faith and purest Charity In statesman,... | |
 | Powys-land Club - 1874 - 542 páginas
...Lives by his biographer, Isaac Walton. " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped, that traced...lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing .... O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die." So high... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...Webster, 1849. These lines are similarly quoted by the Rev. John Cumming in the Voices of the Dead. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good. men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.1 Ibid. Part iii. v. Walton's Booh of Lives. Meek Walton's heaveuly memory.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...Which Milton held. WORDSWORTH. Meek Walton's heavenly memory. WORDSWORTH : Walton's Book of Lives. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing. WORDSWORTH : Walton's Book of Lives. As thou these ashes, little brook... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 páginas
...Webster, 1849. These lines are similarly quoted by the Rev. John Gumming in the Voicts of the Dead. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.1 Ibid. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives. Meek Walton's heavenly memory.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1875 - 716 páginas
...labours cannot be too often reprinted : — " 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 pood Men, Dropped from an Angel's wins. With moistened eye, We read of faith and purest charity, In... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 páginas
...chambers of the deep. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. 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 ^ood men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman,... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 páginas
...suecessive ages — chiselled the moral features of mankind. — Dr. .-¡duff. BIOGRAPHY. -The Pen of The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — Eecle. BIOOEAPHT.— The Use of The chief use of biography... | |
 | 1877 - 574 páginas
...S. viii. 66, 154, 337.)— Compare— " 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, Droplfrom an angel's wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...be saved without it; bring the PEN ! — Ibid. — The PEN of a ready writer. — Psalm xlv. 1. — The feather whence the PEN Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. WORDSWORTH, Walton's Lives. — The PEN wherewith thou dost so heavenly... | |
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