 | United States - 1850 - 616 pages
...fresh and lovely a being, as ever gathered a flower or kissed a rose. CHAPTERV. • And if there he a human tear From Passion's dross refined and clear...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. — SCOTT. HIRAM'S father had been dead some six months, and Sophia and he being her only children,... | |
 | Family Sanctuary, Family sanctuary - Families - 1838 - 598 pages
...and as the affection of parent and child is the most tender and the purest of earthly feelings, For if there be a human tear, From passion's dross, refined...limpid, and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek — it is that of parental affection. Observe, therefore, how varied are the expressions descriptive... | |
 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 pages
...heart, And build where pain, and death, can ne'er destroy. 1834. A FACT: ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD. " Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...pious fathers shed, Upon a duteous daughter's head ! " SIR WALTER SCOTT. It was upon a winter's eve, The storm was howling wild ; When I beheld my mother... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 266 pages
...to expiate greater follies than even exaggerated calumny has propagated against Lord Byron. A TEAIl. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...cheek — Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a beauteous daughter's head. TIME. Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...her dear form, his mother's band, The islet far behind her lay, And she hud landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...Such holy drops her tresses steep'd, Though 'twas an hero's eye that weep'd. Nor while on Ellen's faltering tongue4 Her filial welcomes crowded hung,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...tears, which love and pity thed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail. (Collinï Od» оя Thornton.) Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...them than heaven; And if there be a human tear From passions dross refined and clear; A tear so limpid and so meek, , . It would not stain an angel's cheek.... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 360 pages
...snuff, priser. THE HOSE AN EMBLEM OF LOVE AND HOPE. 275 THE TEAK OF PATERNAL LOVE. Some feelings (1) are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than...And if there be a human tear From passion's dross (2) refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek , 'Tis that... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - British - 1842 - 1042 pages
...thousand atoms. The change was as instantaneous as it was awful—an instant before the CHAPTER XL Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. SIR WALTER SCOTT. FERNBRAES, with the servants, tenants, and fishermen who had attended the funeral,... | |
 | Henry Godwin - 1842 - 990 pages
...these are not to be dwelt on ; they are too sacred and delicate, to be exposed to public gaze : — Ob if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined...so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek ; 'Tis such as pious fathers shed Upon a daughter's duteous head ! SCOTT. Among the innumerable questions... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 144 pages
...take care of his sisters, and satsfying them that no accident had happened. •til CHAPTER XXXIX. " Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refmud and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which... | |
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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... 
