| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 oldal
...nature clings, And if dissevered thence, its course is short. X. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. Tin :; i. are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: () could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 392 oldal
...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." T. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 540 oldal
...Donne, and Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable light as n biographer. Wordsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of the** good men Dropped from an angel's wing. • At a very advanced age Walton published, under the... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 oldal
...but none more admirable as a memorial. I refer to Izaak Walton's Lives, of which the poet has said : "There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lines of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing."* Passing to the imaginative side of our literature,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 oldal
...but none more admirable as a memorial. I refer to Izaak Walton's Lives, of which the poet has said : "There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lines of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing."* Passing to the imaginative side of our literature,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 oldal
...all that mighty heart is lying still ! Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced...lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. Meek Walton's heavenly memory. The Tables Turned. Up ! up ! my Friend, and quit your books, Or surely... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 310 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... | |
| 1857 - 574 oldal
...is the best preparation for a tranquil and happy death-bed. GEORGE HERBERT. BORN, 1593; DIED, 1632. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity,...we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, and happiness to die. V ethinkq their very names shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 oldal
...Izaak Walton. WALTON'S LIVES. These mere honourable men in their generations. — Ecclus. xliv. 7There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these:...Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Droptjrom an angel's wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 306 oldal
...of simplicity, and a want of exact truth and fidelity of imagination. XIII. ; There are 210 colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel'a wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest Charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble... | |
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