 | George Newenham Wright - 1849 - 248 páginas
...dinner off it." CHAPEL OF DREUX. (WITH TUB TOMBS OF MARIE OF WIRTKMDERO AND THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.) " If there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid an,l so mock, It would not stain an angel's cheek, Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous... | |
 | 1851 - 68 páginas
...which, for the present world, might be a final one. Who could blame a father? who blame a daughter? Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. The hour of separation came, and... | |
 | 1850 - 608 páginas
...looked as blooming, fresh and lovely a being, as ever gathered a flower or kissed a rose. CHAPTER V. And if there be a human tear From Passion's dross...not stain an Angel's cheek — 'Tis that which pious fatltere shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. — SCOTT. HIRAM'S father had been dead some six months,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...pnrely felt the flame ; — O need I tell that passion's name ? CANTO IL STANZA XXIL PATERNAL AFFECTION. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven : And if there be a hnman tear From passion's dross refined and elear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It wonld not stain... | |
 | 1861 - 378 páginas
...though chastened intensity. It was very evident that I had touched a sensitive chord. We read of— " A tear SO limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek !" And surely of such a nature were those pearly drops which, in spite of all her efforts to restrain... | |
 | Reminiscences - 1851 - 86 páginas
...measure. Those words of Scott were never more beautifully illustrated than on that occasion : — " Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head." This heart-rending ceremony completely overpowered him. A kind of stupor succeeded, his eyes being... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 páginas
...— what drops must have accompanied the parting paternal benediction — on that memorable day ! " Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, — 'T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head." But the two circumstances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 páginas
...For her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses steeped,... | |
 | 1895 - 768 páginas
...day, Will weep indeed, and heave a pitying groan For others' woes, but smiles upon Tier own. Cowper. Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. Scott, Lady, n. 22. PIGMIES. Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps, And pyramids are pyramids... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1904 - 274 páginas
...Border Home, And Tweedeide charms for me. Berwick-on-Tweed. O. (81st TCegt.) From " Chambers'* Journal." Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! — ': Ladv of the Lake." Paper°Hanging on Tweedside. JE have pleasure in recommending to our readers... | |
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Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon... 
