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
| Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 páginas
...it breathes the closing promise that He will never leave me. — H. MARTIN. Biography.— The Pen of The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of good men Dropped from an angel's wing. — ECCLE. Biography. — The Profitableness of I think that,... | |
| Thomas Westwood - 1883 - 128 páginas
...repeated : "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,... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...For though they digged up his body, burnt his bones, and drowned his ashes, yet the word of God and The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men. Dropped from an angel's wing.1 EccUsiattical Sonnets. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives. Meek Walton's... | |
| 1883 - 502 páginas
...The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a ijuill from an angel's wing." Constable " 1 he feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing." Wordsworth. ** Whose noble praise Deserves a quill plucked from an angel's... | |
| 1884 - 418 páginas
...' he will find almost every week parallel passages. To wit, Dryden says, in one of his sonnets — The feather, whence the pen Was shaped, that traced...lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing. Henry Constable, who flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, wrote — The pen wherewith thou doest... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1884 - 498 páginas
...their generations. — Ecclus. xliv. 7. 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 : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1885 - 430 páginas
...sight.' § v. 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, * As in the case of John Hales of Eton, William Chillingworth, who wrote The Religion of Protestants,... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...Wordsworth has celebrated their excellence: — " 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,... | |
| William Wordsworth, William Angus Knight - 1888 - 396 páginas
...OF LIVES. Composed 1821. Published 1822. 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,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 140 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 good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman,... | |
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