...exist between a loving father and a dutiful daughter. Sir Walter Scott wrote feelingly when he said, Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth...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...

...stray, I only ask of thee, To heed no tales the world may say. But still think well of me. SONNET. To " Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven." Thus sung a poet, whose great name Hath won undying wreaths of fame; And thus, all other thoughts apart,...

...may well be deem'd The haunt of something purer, more refined, And mightier than ourselves. Abbot. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! Lady of the Lake. The sultry summer...

...recognizing him as a child of God, a happiness in which the ministering angels largely shared, for "Some feelings are to mortals given, "With less of...so limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheeki "Pis that which Christian parents shed Upon their pious children's head." If your lot is cast...

...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 in them than heaven , And if there be a human teai From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's...

...told Mr. E. I would try and find him, if living, or know his end, if no longer on earth. CHAPTER ill. Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven. Walter Scott. AFTER remaining a while in my native city f set out on my tour South. On arriving in...

...Mind of the Young Child moulds into that of the Youth or Maiden : — We shall see. CHAPTEE III. " Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...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...

...Mind of the Young Child moulds into that of the Youth or Maiden : — We shall see. CHAPTEK III. " Some feelings are to mortals given, ' With less of...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;...

...says Bowles, " 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...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...

...Mind of the Young Child moulds into that of the Youth or Maiden : — We shall see. CHAPTER III. " Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth...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, It would not stain an angel's cheek,...