 | 1857 - 602 oldal
...Walton" has bequeathed as a legacy to our language. Well writes Wordsworth : " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these ; the feather...these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing ; with moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Methinks... | |
 | 1844 - 520 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 - 1845 - 688 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 - 1845 - 514 oldal
...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 - 1847 - 352 oldal
...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 - 1847 - 322 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 704 oldal
...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... | |
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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. 
