 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
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1876 - 836 pages
...312, xlviii. 201 ; Amer. Mon. Rev., iii. 30. ''There are no colours in the fairest sky 80 fair IU4 these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. 0! could we copy their mild virtues, then Wlmt joy to live, what blessedness to die ! M'-thinks their... | |
 | Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1874 - 542 pages
...celebrates in an ecclesiastical sonnet the instructive Book of Lives by his biographer, Isaac Walton. " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...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 Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 952 pages
...mine osvn being taken from me and disposed of contrary unto ' Wordsworth, on Walton's Lives : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lines of these good Fell from an angel's wing." [men IntheAddl. MSS., Br. Mus., there is a Latin translation... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 722 pages
...Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on Walton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...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
...Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on Walton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted :— " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...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,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1875 - 672 pages
...Wordsworth's exquisite sonnet on W'alton's biographical labours cannot be too often reprinted : — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...the pen "Was shaped that traced the lives of these pood Men, Dropped from an Angel's wine- With moistened eye, We read of faith and purest charity, In... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...; like the firmament 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...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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