 | 1823 - 616 str.
...Ecclesiastical Sketches^ and in a strain worthy of the subject. There are no colours in the fairest sky • -i t So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shaped...wing. With moistened eye ; We read of faith and purest chanty In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtu'es, then What joy... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 str.
...tj-rlu*. xlir. 7. LONDON: JOHN MAJOR, FLEET-STREET, ADJOINING SERJEANTS'-INN. " There are no colours in the fairest sky, So fair as these ; the feather...Was shaped, that traced the Lives of these good men, Droptfrom an angeCs wing : with moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman,... | |
 | 1828 - 410 str.
...H-.-ii ry Wot ton, and Bishop Sanderson — aod is thus described by Wontsworth — There an no uiluuis in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence...the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wine. With moistened eye We read of fauh and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and irambie Citizen.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1832 - 548 str.
...Donne, and Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable* light as a biographer. Wordsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an angePn wing. At a very advanced age Walton published, under the name of Chalkhill, Theahna and Clearchus,... | |
 | 1833 - 240 str.
...its industry. 203 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. (From the same.) THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather whence the pen Was shap'd that trac'd the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an Angel's wing. With moisten'd eye We... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1839 - 538 str.
...Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable light as a biographer. Ilislily Wor, •dsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced...the lives of these good men Dropped from an angel's wirfg. At a very advanced age Walton published, Chiselhurst, in Kent; was educated at under the name... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1839 - 540 str.
...Donne, and Herbert, exhibit him in a highly favourable light as a biographer. Wordsworth says of them, The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men i Dropped from an angel's wing. At a very advance;! ago Wulton published, under the name of Chalkhill,... | |
 | 1857 - 602 str.
...exquisite life which " gentle Isaac Walton" has bequeathed as a legacy to our language. Well writes Wordsworth : " There are no colors in the fairest...these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing ; with moisten'd eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Methinks... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 str.
...honest Izaak indited his " plain relation " of the life of this humble and accomplished man, whose (1) " The feather whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropp'd from an angel's wing." „ WORDSWORTH, — "Sonnet on Wtitttns Lira• ' J RICHARD HOOKER.... | |
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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. 
