 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 oldal
...So fair as these. The feather whence the pen . Was shaped that traced the lives of these l:ooil men Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye ;We...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 oldal
...-i t 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. 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 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 336 oldal
...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 With moistened eye We...names shine still and bright Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or seen, like... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 oldal
...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 With moistened eye We...names shine still and bright Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or seen, like... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 oldal
...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 oldal
...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 478 oldal
...With moistened cyo We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, pnest, and humble citizen. Oh I could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names, shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
 | 1836 - 532 oldal
...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. With moistened eye We...shine still and bright, Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or — seem,... | |
 | 1837 - 646 oldal
...With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesmen, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
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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. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity = In Statesman, Priest, and... 
