| Robert Herbert Story - 1870 - 408 páginas
...his burden and made no complaint, and his time had come. Too early, would any say ? — " Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." They brought him to Edinburgh, that he might be buried beside his four children, in the Grange Cemetery.... | |
| Michael C. Grabham - 1870 - 262 páginas
...perished, time has not sufficed for disappointment, degradation, or decay. It may be perhaps that — "The good die first; And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." The tiny cypress-planted plot close by is the residents' cemetery, now no longer used for interment.... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 páginas
...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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 páginas
...door hut she who dwelt within A daughter's weleome 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 sockeL Many a passenger Hath hlessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1874 - 666 páginas
...William Wordsworth puts into the mouth of his rustic sage this language : "The good die first, A ml they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." With the decline of Christian asceticism the noble old faith in the worth of years revives. People... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 páginas
...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... | |
| 1872 - 598 páginas
...no cloud upon the life of the gentle being who looked to him for so much of her earthly happiness. " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER-READING. BY WIXFEIED R. MAEIIX. MACAULAY has remarked of the ancient philosophy... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...but she who dwelt therein 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... | |
| 1872 - 860 páginas
...and delicacy of sentiment; thus justifying the poet's mournful lines — " The good die soon, While they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." What the true ultimate causes of Phthisis mayT)e, we are, of course, utterly ignorant of, and are never... | |
| Henry Bascom Ridgaway - 1873 - 496 páginas
...be forgiven if they suggest conditions which, humanly considered, may have prevented it. " Oh, sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket," is an utterance which gratifies a sort of vengeful feeling when we see the good stricken down in their... | |
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