 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1849 - 544 pagine
...favourable light ля a biographer. Wordsworth sayo of them, f The feather whence the pea Was ehttped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Thealuiaand Clearrhus, a Pastoral... | |
 | 1876 - 602 pagine
...bank, A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same." And 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," is taken from an Elizabethan poet — Henry Constable : — " The pen... | |
 | 1850 - 1050 pagine
...preferment, — for these and other points we must refer to those pages, of which Wordsworth says, " The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angel's ming ;" — but we cannot resist giving the conclusion ' — (it was after Hooker's... | |
 | 1877 - 668 pagine
...London. SAMUEL SHAW. AndoTer. PEN FROM AN ANGEL'S WING (5th S. viii. 66, 154, 337.)— Compare— " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these ; iht feather whence the pen n'as shaped, that traced tlie livtt of Ilute good men, Droplfrom an angel's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pagine
...heaven by nature clings, And if dissevered thence, its course is short. X. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced tlie lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and... | |
 | 1853 - 420 pagine
...Izaak Walton has arrayed her." To which we may add the testimony of Wordsworth : "There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...charity In statesman, priest and humble citizen." But the great work of " good Mr. Walton" which he and others have most loved, is " The Complete Angler,... | |
 | 1853 - 42 pagine
...Izaak Walton has arrayed her." To which we may add the testimony of Wordsworth : " There are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...and purest charity In statesman, priest and humble cititen." But the great work of " good Mr. Walton" which he,and others have most loved, is " The Complete... | |
 | 1853 - 826 pagine
...institution ; but when enchained by Walton's Lives, — that book of which Wordsworth has well said, 1 The feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced...of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing," — one is disposed to conclude that the institution itself had, after all, something to do in producing... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pagine
...graceful conceit, in his sonnet on Walton's lines — " There are'no colours in the fairest sky As fair as these : the feather whence the pen Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, Dropt from an angers wing " — than the following : " whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from... | |
 | Edward Herbert (1st baron.) - 1853 - 534 pagine
...OF MR. GEORGE HERBERT 64 THE LIFE OF DR. ROBERT SANDERSON 85 Tnr»t ire no colonrs in the uireif iky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the liven of those good men, Drop|ie<l from »n »ngel's wine. With tnoi«teneJ eve M с read of faith... | |
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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. 
