 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...— ' that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.' § v. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. || THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, * As in the case of John Hales of Eton, William Chillingworth, who wrote The Religion of Protestants,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.' § v. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. || THEKE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, * Aa in the case of John Hales of Eton, William Chillingworth, who wrote The Religion of Protestants,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...affectionate, and truth-telling. In a fine sonnet Wordsworth has celebrated their excellence: — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh t could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...share Of the new Flame, not suffered to expire. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. Composed 1821. Published 1822. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...purest 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... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...feeding upon its very letter to the last hour of his life : — these are a legacy for all time. And " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these!" One cannot, as it seems, too greatly admire the UXT domitable energy of character, — the consciousness... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 1152
...his soul — "that he may sw and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. " WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. \Vith moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen Oh... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...two Chalkhills, as a distinct name from "John." CHAPTER II. KEN AND IZAAK WALTON. AI). 1C37— 1683. "There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wings." Wordsworth. I AM about to claim for the author of the Complete Atigler a larger share in the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...keepeth; like the firmament His ways; His statutes like the chambers of the deep. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...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 In Statesman,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 251
...good men, So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moistcn'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: 0, could we copy tlicir mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die! Methinks their... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...as some may be unreasonably surprised. But Wordsworth was right when he said of Walton's ' Lives,' There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. Hallam's words are : ' It must be confessed that our golden age did not begin before the eighteenth... | |
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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. 
