 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 722 pages
...sonnet on Walton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...the lives of these good Men, Dropped from an Angel's wine. With moistened c-ye. We read of faith and purest charity, In Statesman, Pricsr, and humble Citizen.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 722 pages
...exquisite sonnet on Walton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted :— " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...Was shaped that traced the lives of these good Men, Propped from an Angel's wine. With moistened eye. We read of faith and purest charily. In Statesman,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...His ways ; His statutes like the chambers of the deep. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 716 pages
...sonnet on Walton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...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. ibid. But who would... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Annie Raine Ellis - England - 1881 - 284 pages
...have been written with such a pen1 as Wordsworth gives to the hand of Walton. 1 " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing." — WORDSWORTH. CHAPTER XV. " They have made no sacrifices to their projects of greater value than... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 520 pages
...light Shines through his soul — " that he may see and WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...His ways ; His statutes like the chambers of the deep. WALTON'S BOOK OF LI-VES. THEHE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...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 ECCLESIASTICAL... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Barde and Scotch A'ericicirs. Line 7. The pen became a clarion. I. LONGFELLOW— Monte Consino. St. 13. The feather, whence the pen, Was shaped that traced...these good men, • Dropped from an Angel's wing, m. WOBDSWORTH — Walton's Book of Lives. PERCEPTION. And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's... | |
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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. 
