 | 1867 - 682 pages
...that reads it will not remember Scott's most affecting and beautiful picture ? — 'Oh, if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear,...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head.' " Bowles's Life of Bishop Ken, ii. 193. The letter, from which an extract only is given in the first... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1849 - 188 pages
...III. " 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,...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! " WALTER SCOTT. THE story-teller is, or ought to be, endowed with something like a magician's wand;... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 196 pages
...III. " 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,...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! " WALTER SCOTT. THE story-teller is, or ought to be, endowed with something like a magician's wand... | |
 | Mrs. Newton Crosland - 1849 - 190 pages
...mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven : And if there be a human tear From pas-ion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek,...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! " WALTER SCOTT. THE story-teller is, or ought to be, endowed with something like a magician's wand;... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1849 - 248 pages
...it." CHAPEL OF DREUX. (WITH TUB TOMBS OF MARIE OF WIRTKMDERO AND THE DUKE OF ORLEANS.) " If there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid an,l so mock, It would not stain an angel's cheek, Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous... | |
 | 1850 - 608 pages
...blooming, fresh and lovely a being, as ever gathered a flower or kissed a rose. CHAPTER V. And if there be a human tear From Passion's dross refined and clear...not stain an Angel's cheek — 'Tis that which pious fatltere shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. — SCOTT. HIRAM'S father had been dead some six months,... | |
 | 1851 - 68 pages
...daughter? 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,...and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. The hour of separation came, and... | |
 | 1861 - 378 pages
...though chastened intensity. It was very evident that I had touched a sensitive chord. We read of— " A tear SO limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek !" And surely of such a nature were those pearly drops which, in spite of all her efforts to restrain... | |
 | Reminiscences - 1851 - 86 pages
...: — " 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...pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head." This heart-rending ceremony completely overpowered him. A kind of stupor succeeded, his eyes being... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 pages
...day ! " 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,...limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, — 'T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head." But the two circumstances... | |
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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... 
