 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1011855Full view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there he a hnman tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It wonld not stain an angel's cheek, Tis that which pions fathers shed Upon a dnteons danghter's head... | |
 | Frances Brooke - 1818 - 250 pages
...priest's, as the song says." CHAPTER XX. And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refin'd and clear— A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek ; 'Tis that which pious fathers shed a duteous daughter's head. LADY or THE LAKE.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. XXII. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human...clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas... | |
 | 1813 - 998 pages
...by such considerations, and with no common emotions : 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 refin'd and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...islet far behind her lay, And she had landed in the bay. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human...clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas... | |
 | Relapse - 1824 - 230 pages
...to her the combined endearments of 'every other tender relation in life. He did indeed feel, that " if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed . O'er a duteous daughter's head." ID all her good resolutions and... | |
 | Nicholas Marcellus Hentz - 1825 - 288 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 212 pages
...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, " It would not stain an ANGEL'S CHEEK,— ' "'Tis that, which pious fathers shed ' '•' ; "Upon a duteous daughter's head!... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...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... | |
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