 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...praise to God. April 1826. 1 Alluding to the lines she herself quoted but an hour before her death: — "Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven." TO AN ORPHAN. 163 TO AN ORPHAN. THOU hast been rear'd too tenderly, Beloved too well and long, Watch'd... | |
 | 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...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely press'd, Such holy drops her tresses steep'd,... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 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... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 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.... | |
 | Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 1040 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 - 1018 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... | |
 | 1842 - 346 pages
...been BO long and strangely separated. For the Ladies' Pearl. ELLEN: OR, A DAUGHTER'S LOVE. • » " Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's drops refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1842 - 350 pages
...praise to God. April 182a 1 Alluding to the lines she herself quoted but an hour before her death: — "Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven." TO AN ORPHAN. 163 TO AN ORPHAN. THOU hast been rear'd too tenderly, Beloved too well and long, Watch'd... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...to descry A guileless bosom true to sympathy ! Campbell. PARENTAL AFFECTION TOWAHDS A DUTIFUL CHILD. SOME feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheekj— 'Tis that, which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. Scott. SCENES OF EDUCATION.... | |
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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... 
