John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued) |
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| The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel’s wing. 1 |
| Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v.Walton’s Book of Lives. |
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| Meek Walton’s heavenly memory. |
| Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v.Walton’s Book of Lives. |
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| But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant. |
| Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. vii.Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters. |
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| Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. |
| Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. xliii.Inside of King’s Chapel, Cambridge. |
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| Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. |
| To the Lady Fleming. |
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| But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. |
| Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B. |
| Note 1. The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel’s wing. Henry Constable: Sonnet. Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel’s wing. Dorothy Berry: Sonnet. [back] |