 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...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 read of 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 ! Methinks their... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...piety of Herbert, and the sufferings of Sanderson, are faithfully and tenderly recorded in his page — With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...has read " meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? Walton's Book of " Lives." There are no colors in the fairest sky So...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1839 - 538 pages
...Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable light as a biographer. Ilislily Wor, •dsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced...the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wirfg. At a very advanced age Walton published, Chiselhurst, in Kent; was educated at under the name... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...of Herbert, and the sufferings of Sanderson, are faithfully and tenderly recorded in his page, — - With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1839 - 540 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 i Dropped from an angel's wing. At a very advance;! ago Wulton published, under the name of Chalkhill,... | |
 | 1840 - 756 pages
...Walton is to be met with in the following beautiful sonnet by Mr. Wordsworth. " There arc no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1840 - 722 pages
...Walton is to be met with in the following beautiful sonnet by Mr. Wordsworth. " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...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... | |
 | 1840 - 758 pages
...fairest sky So fair as those ; the feather whence the pen Was shaped thit traced the lives of three food men. Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened...charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could wo copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
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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. 
