 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.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 256edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...sentiments may not always coincide with their own. Wordsworth has a fine sonnet on them, commencing — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these :" and though few could assent to such praise, few will deny their exceeding beauty. We have not perhaps... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...his soul — 'that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.' WALTON S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : О could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...soul — ' that he may sec and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.' v. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVE». THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was sliaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel'swing. With moistened eye We... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...honest Izaak indited his " plain relation " of the life of this humble and accomplished man, whose (1) " The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing." „ WORDSWORTH, — "Sonnet on Wtitttns Lira• ' J RICHARD HOOKER.... | |
 | James Thorne - Avon River - 1845 - 514 pages
...sentiments may not always coincide with their own. Wordsworth has a fine sonnet on them, commencing — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these :" and though few could assent to such praise, few will deny their exceeding beauty. We have not perhaps... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - English literature - 1847 - 352 pages
...and a want of exact truth and fidelity of imagination. XIII. WALTON'S LIVES. " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...purest Charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble citizen : 0 could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - English literature - 1847 - 322 pages
...and a want of exact truth and fidelity oi imagination. XIII . WALTON'S LIVES. " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...Faith and purest Charity In Statesman, Priest, and humblfi citizen : 0 could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die... | |
 | Christian seasons - 1849 - 524 pages
...them has he so exquisitely written, that it has been declared by the greatest poet of our age, that " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing." Having in the course of years retired from business, he gave himself up... | |
 | Questions and answers - 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1849 - 544 pages
...favourable light ля a biographer. Wordsworth sayo of them, f The feather whence the pea Was ehttped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Thealuiaand Clearrhus, a Pastoral... | |
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