 | 1823 - 616 pages
...lives in his Ecclesiastical Sketches, and in a strain worthy of the subject. . There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...faith and purest charity In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...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 - 564 pages
...tj-rlu*. xlir. 7. LONDON: JOHN MAJOR, FLEET-STREET, ADJOINING SERJEANTS'-INN. " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these ; the feather...Was shaped, that traced the Lives of these good men, Droptfrom an angeCs wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | Ireland - 1828 - 410 pages
...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 - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...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...faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...WRITINGS. VOL. I. BOSTON: HIL.LIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXII. ' THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as...faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 336 pages
...VOL. I. BOSTON: BILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXII. i " THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as...faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 548 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...its industry. 203 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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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. 
