| Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...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,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...door but she who dwelt within A daughter's welcome gave me, and I loved her As my own child. Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...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, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| 1848 - 766 pages
...persuasion, that it has become of * • • Tbe poet has told as," says the Archdeacon, " ' Ah, sir, the good die first ; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.' " It seems a pity be contented himself with what he had reason thus « priori to suppose to be the... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...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... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1848 - 292 pages
...triumph-hours, save on the battle-day ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, OF NEW- YORK, SEPT., " The good die first, And they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee,... | |
| 1850 - 824 pages
...through the screen, yellow aud warm, as a harvest suu. It is in its best age, and that age is ripeness. A ripe heart ! now I know what Wordsworth meant, when...socket ! The town clock is striking midnight. The i-old of the night-wiud is urging its way into door and window-crevice ; the fire has sunk almost to... | |
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