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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:5085
AUTHOR:William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
QUOTATION:The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an angel’s wing. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v.Walton’s Book of Lives.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:William Wordsworth Collection.
 
Note 1.
The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing
Made of a quill from an angel’s wing.
Henry Constable: Sonnet.

Whose noble praise
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel’s wing.
Dorothy Berry: Sonnet. [back]
 

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