 | 1823 - 616 sidor
...these delightful lives in his Ecclesiastical Sketches, and in a strain worthy of the subject. . There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....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 their... | |
 | 1823 - 616 sidor
...Ecclesiastical 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...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 sidor
...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, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | 1828 - 410 sidor
...H-.-ii ry Wot ton, and Bishop Sanderson — aod is thus described by Wontsworth — There an no uiluuis in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...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.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 their... | |
 | 1833 - 240 sidor
...world and all its industry. 203 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. (From the same.) THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shap'd that trac'd the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 sidor
...piety of Herbert, and the sufferings of Sanderson, are faithfully and tenderly recorded in his page — With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1839 - 538 sidor
...Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable light as a biographer. Ilislily Wor, •dsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced...the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wirfg. At a very advanced age Walton published, Chiselhurst, in Kent; was educated at under the name... | |
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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. 
