 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...the charm of their author more exactly than Wordsworth (in the Ecclesiastical Sketches of 1822) — " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest chastity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen. O, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...309, 312, xlriii. 201 ; Amer. MOD. Rev., iii. 30. "There are no colours in the fairest sky So fuir as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that...and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citlxen. 0! could we copy their mild Tirtnes, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die 1 Methinks... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...than Wordsworth (in the Ecclesiastical Sketches of 1822)— .. There are no colours in the fairest sky Was shaped that traced the lives of these good Men,...wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest chastity So fair ai these. The feather, whence the pen In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen. O,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...these. The feather, whence the pen Book of Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Llves Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We...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... | |
 | Willmott Willmott-Dixon - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...read his lives of Donne, and Wotton, and Herbert, and Hooker, and Sanderson, albeit, Wordsworth says : The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing." His best work, as he himself no doubt believed, is in those admirable... | |
 | Charles Arthur Lane - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...depths of iniquity into which they had sunk. In the numerous biographies and memoirs of that age " We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen." Henry Venn the elder, James Hervey, William Romaine, Hannah More, Charles Simeon, John Thornton the... | |
 | 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 1186
...Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced...the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.1 Evclesiastical Sonnets. Part Hi. o. Walton' t Book of Liw t. Meek Walton's heavenly memory.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...In their Generations. Ecclus. xhv. r. LONDON: JOHN MAJOR, FLEET-STREET, ADJOINING SERJEANTS'-INN. " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as...Was shaped, that traced the Lives of these good men, Droptfrom an angel's wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | Stapleton Martin - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...language. But a study of the Lives should be made by any reader as yet unacquainted with them : — " the feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced...of these good Men, Dropped from an Angel's wing," as Wordsworth has in a sonnet so beautifully expressed it. " These all died in faith, not having received... | |
 | 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 696
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. FROM " ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS/' PART III. THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...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... | |
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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. 
