 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...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Side 352af Walter Scott - 1852 - 580 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Nicholas Marcellus Hentz - 1825 - 288 sider
...CHAPTER XIII. Some feelings are to mortals given With less ot earth in them than heavm ; And if there he a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It could not stain an angel's check, *T is that, which pious fathers shed, Upon a duteous daughter's head.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 sider
...her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! r And as the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 212 sider
...sullied ! Let him repeat, '. » ' .•'. » " Oh ! if there be a human tear, " From passion's dregs refined and clear; " A tear— so limpid and so meek,...fathers shed ' '•' ; "Upon a duteous daughter's head! I" ; < .,.,;../ , j n When the reader has reflected on this affecting picture, let him reflect on whom... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 sider
...out-watch the bear With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato " The poet has said " Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven." Such, I conceive, to be those that would dictate that tender desire, " Fond soother of my infant tear,... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1827 - 556 sider
...Alluding to the lines she herself quoted, from the Lady of the Lake, but an hour before her death — ' Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven' — * and these,' she said, ' I feel now ! ' Xtetoieto. ART. XIII. — The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...farbrhind her lay, And she had bnded in the bav. XXII. / Some feelings are to mortals given, [ Willi less of earth in them than heaven And if there be a human tear Krorn passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not suiin an angel's... | |
 | Mary Ann Gray (formerly Browne.), Mary Ann Browne - 1829 - 142 sider
...look beyond the tomb ; While we cast all our care on Heaven, We shall not want a home ! THE DAUGHTER. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dregs refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'T is that... | |
 | 1829 - 838 sider
...defined it with less of fiction than of science, in the feelings of a father towards a daughter. " An' if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so holy, and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek ; 'Tis such as tender fathers shed Upon a duteous... | |
 | 1830 - 222 sider
...tears were the last remains of consciousness! Reason forsook the throne where Affection triumphed : ' Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them, than heaven; And if there bo a human tear, From passion's dross rcfin'd and clear, — A tear so limpid and so meek, It would... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - 1831 - 248 sider
... jfefrrarg of noci> • kvtgrt Sub Wtumiat of FRANCIS H. PAYNE, '91 •i • A TALE. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...not stain an angel's cheek— 'Tis that which pious mothers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! W. SCOTT. LONDON : J. HATC HARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.... | |
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