 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1903 - 308 pages
...sunbeam, swift and bright, She darted to her shallop light, 46o And, eagerly while Roderick scanned, For her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far...limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, 47o 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1903 - 232 pages
...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...and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 470 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1854 - 926 pages
...more truly, tlian ia the case of Ellen De Booth, — Some feelings are to mortals given, With leas of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human...tear, From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear 90 limpid and so meek. It would not stain an angel's cheek : 'Tis that which pious fathers shed, Upon... | |
 | Annie E. Ridley - Harvesting machinery - 1904 - 496 pages
...parting without any definite hope of meeting again. "And now for the indulgence of hope of meeting. ' Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, Tis that . . .' You know the rest. " Your affectionate " FATHER." CHAPTER XII. LETTERS AND LETTER-WRITING. "... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1904 - 270 pages
...passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 470 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast XXII Such holy drops her tresses steeped, 475 Though 'twas an hero's eye that weeped. Nor while on... | |
 | Leisure - 1881 - 814 pages
...the poet had been gazing on them at that moment, he might have written then his immortal lines — " Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head !" How strange are the subtle sympathies of natures linked together by spiritual affinity. Mona, delicate... | |
 | Mormon Church - 1906 - 602 pages
...where that ball went?" The game is interrupted while they search in the shrubbery for the lost ball. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...and so meek. It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tls that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head! —Scott's "Lady of the Lake." OUR... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 272 pages
...And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, 5 It would not stain an angel's cheek, "Tis that which...the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely press 'd, 10 Such holy drops her tresses steep'd, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. Nor while... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1906 - 568 pages
...to mind what the same great poet wrote of parental affection near the period we are now considering: "Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven, And if there be one human tear From passion's dross refined and clear — A tear so limpid and so meek It would not... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1906 - 626 pages
...to mind what the same great poet wrote of parental affection near the period we are now considering: "Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven, And if there be one human tear From passion's dross refined and clear — A tear so limpid and so meek It would not... | |
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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... 
