| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 페이지
...did my steps Approach this door but she who dwelt within A daughter's welcome gave me, and I loyed her As my own child. Oh, Sir ! the good die first,...summer dust Burn to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment drawn From that forsaken... | |
| Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 페이지
...an indelible impression on the minds, not only of his subjects, but of bis successor. — Robertson, Oh ! sir, the good die first ; And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. Wordsworth. 4. Explain the use of all the tenses, and quote passages to illustrate it.— 1. The Present,... | |
| 1845 - 480 페이지
...more mercy at his relentless hand, than vice, deformity, or infamy. Ay, how often is it even that " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as Summer dust, Burn to the socket." How many of those whom we delight to love and remember, has he cut down within the past short half... | |
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...wield a stronger influence than before. How many illustrations do the words of Wordsworth receive — "The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." But the length of a life is not to be measured merely by the number of its days and years— " We live... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 페이지
...these walls, at my approach, A Daughter's welcome gave me; — and I lov'd her As my own child ! O Sir ! the good die first ! And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." "By some especial care Her temper had been fram'd, as if to make A Being — who by adding love to... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 페이지
...these walls, at my approach, A Daughter's welcome gave me; — and I lov'd her As my own child ! O Sir ! the good die first ! And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket" "By some especial care Her temper had been fram'd, as if to make A Being — who by adding love to... | |
| Fitch Waterman Taylor - 1846 - 682 페이지
...flowers, an early grave. The great majority of the stranger-sleepers are under the age of twenty-five. " The good die first ; And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." I paused at a monument in relievo in the wall, with a lovely design in marble. It represented, in classic... | |
| James Furneaux - 1846 - 144 페이지
...dwells on thee. The former died In September 1s45, and the latter In the previous March. " Oh., Sin the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."—WOKDSWOKTH'S EXCUKSIOX OH, do not deem me boldly given Heaven's mysteries to unwind, And... | |
| Erskine Neale - 1847 - 338 페이지
...selfish, the calculating, the hard-hearted ? Is it to prove the poet's assertion true ? — " Ah ! sir, the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket."* If ever separation was dreaded by mother and daughter, — if ever... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 페이지
...extinguished of her lonely hut, The hut itself abandoned to decay, And she forgotten in the quiet grave ! O sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket. To her hut no one came, But he was welcome ; no one went away, But that it seemed she loved him. She... | |
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