 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...the firmament His ways ; His statutes like the chambers of the deep. WALTON'S BOOK OF LI-VES. THEHE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity ECCLESIASTICAL... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...Barde and Scotch A'ericicirs. Line 7. The pen became a clarion. I. LONGFELLOW— Monte Consino. St. 13. The feather, whence the pen, Was shaped that traced...these good men, • Dropped from an Angel's wing, m. WOBDSWORTH — Walton's Book of Lives. PERCEPTION. And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...credulous of anecdote." See, also, Blackw. Mag., xlv. 309, 312, jclviu. 201 ; Amer. Mon. Ilev., iii. 30. "There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Va* shaped that graced the lives of these jrood men, Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...it breathes the closing promise that He will never leave me. — H. MARTIN. Biography.— The Pen of The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of good men Dropped from an angel's wing. — ECCLE. Biography. — The Profitableness of I think that,... | |
 | Thomas Westwood - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 136
...we may cite here, in that it can scarcely be too frequently repeated : "Walton's ' Book of Lives': There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...charity, In Statesman, Priest, and humble citizen: O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live; what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a ijuill from an angel's wing." Constable " 1 he feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the...of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing." Wordsworth. ** Whose noble praise Deserves a quill plucked from an angel's wing." Dorothy Berry " Man... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 942
...For though they digged up his body, burnt his bones, and drowned his ashes, yet the word of God and The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced...the lives of these good men. Dropped from an angel's wing.1 EccUsiattical Sonnets. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives. Meek Walton's heavenly memory. Ibid.... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Richard Chenevix Trench - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...thoughts, and mark at leisure Features that else had vanished like a dream. 's .fSocft of Xives. HP HERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...Izaak Walton. I WALTON'S LIVES. These were honourable men in their generations. — Ecclus. xliv. 7. There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as...Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...' he will find almost every week parallel passages. To wit, Dryden says, in one of his sonnets — The feather, whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's wing. Henry Constable, who flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, wrote... | |
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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. 
