 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1871 - 832 pages
...** There are no colours in the fairest sky So fuir ял these. The feather whence the pen Was ahaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from...moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In -i ' t '--man, ¡trie«!, and humble citizen. O! could we ropy their mild virtue«, then What joy to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1871 - 704 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - Lawyers - 1872 - 198 pages
...Religio Medici," and George Herbert's Poems. He was especially fond, also, of Izaak Walton's " Lives." "The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced...of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing." On political subjects, Mr. Field showed his wonted mental grasp and moral earnestness ; but he was... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...leisure Features that else had vanished like a dream. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen [good men Was shaped that traced the lives of these Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - Lawyers - 1872 - 202 pages
...Medici," and George Herbert's Poems. He was especially fond, also, of Izaak Walton's " Lives." ' ' The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of thcse good men, Dropped from an angel's wing." On political subjects, Mr. Field showed his wonted mental... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...Of his full bosom, gladsome Piety ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...Faith and purest Charity In statesman, priest, and humbla citizen. O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die!... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1874 - 542 pages
...ecclesiastical sonnet the instructive Book of Lives by his biographer, Isaac Walton. " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...Was shaped, that traced the 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...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...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. Ibid. But who would... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 904 pages
...taken from me and disposed of contrary unto 1 Wordsworth, on Walton's Lives: — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lines of these good Fell from an angel's wing." (.men In the Addl. ^fSS., Br. Mrts., there is a Latin... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 900 pages
...contrary unto 1 Wordsworth, on Walton's Lives : — '* There are no colours in the fairest sky So (air as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lines of these good Fell from an angel's wing." [men In theAddl. MSS., Br. Mus., there is a Latin translation... | |
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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. 
