 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...Was shaped that traced the lives of these l:ooil men Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye ;We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest and humble citizen. Oh, could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1825 - 564 pages
...moistened eye, We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of Faith and purest Charity In Statesman,...names shine still and bright ; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...shaped that traced the lives of thesegood men, **lves Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman,...shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen — like stars... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 336 pages
...Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman,...Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or seen, like stars on high, Satellites... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 pages
...Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman,...Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring, Or lonely tapers shooting far a light That guides and cheers — or seen, like stars on high, Satellites... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...fairest iky, So fair u these ; the feather of fail pen Dropt from an angel's wing : with moisten'd eye. We read of faith, and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! conld we copy their mild virtues then, What joy to live, what happiness to die 1 Methinks their... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...Was shap'd that trac'd 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,...names shine still and bright ; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 408 pages
...the sufferings of Sanderson, are faithfully and tenderly recorded in his page — With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. Oh ! could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1834 - 478 pages
...With moistened cyo We read of faith and purest charity, In statesman, pnest, and humble citizen. Oh I could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names, shine still and bright, Satellites turning in a lucid... | |
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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. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble... 
