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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 2914
edited by - 1900 - 4190 pages
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A System of English Grammar

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,...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

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...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

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...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

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...
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A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Various Foreign Countries, in the ...

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...
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Lenten Thoughts and other poems

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...
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The British Magazine, Volume 33

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...
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The Hemans Reader for Female Schools: Containing Extracts in Prose and Poetry

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...
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The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated ...

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,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 16

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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