 | 1823 - 616 trang
...Sketches, and in a strain worthy of the subject. . There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...and purest charity In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks... | |
 | 1823 - 616 trang
...Sketches^ and in a strain worthy of the subject. There are no colours in the fairest sky • -i t So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...wing. With moistened eye ; We read of faith and purest chanty In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtu'es, then What joy... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 trang
...JOHN MAJOR, FLEET-STREET, ADJOINING SERJEANTS'-INN. " 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, Droptfrom an angeCs wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | 1828 - 410 trang
...Sanderson — aod is thus described by Wontsworth — There an no uiluuis in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wine. With moistened eye We read of fauh and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and irambie Citizen.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 trang
...these. The feather, whence the pen Book of Was shaped that traced the lives of thesegood men, **lves Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We...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... | |
 | 1832 - 336 trang
...CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXII. i " THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 trang
...CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. ' 11 DCCC XXXII. ' THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 trang
...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 Dropped from an angePn wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Theahna and Clearchus,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 trang
...fairest iky, So fair u these ; the feather of fail pen Dropt from an angel's wing : with moisten'd eye. We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! conld we copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die 1 Methinks... | |
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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. 
