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" Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. "
The Southern literary messenger - Page 164
1850
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The Deserted Cottage

William Wordsworth - 1859 - 120 pages
...these walls, at my approach, A daughter's welcome gave, and I lov'd 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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Historical and literary celebrities, selected from Chambers's papers for the ...

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 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 Had blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks When she upheld the cool refreshment...
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The Deserted Cottage

William Wordsworth - 1859 - 128 pages
...these walls, at my approach, A daughter's welcome gave, and I lov'd her As my own child. Oh, sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Bum to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Designed as a Manual of Instruction

Henry Coppée - 1859 - 380 pages
...immediately fell upon a combination of comparison and metaphor in the lines which follow : — " But they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." And here it should be observed, that the just division of tropes, should be constantly kept in view....
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A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel

Sir Lawrence Peel - 1860 - 334 pages
...not ; nor the humbler skill Of prudence, disentangling good and ill With patient care." " Oh ! sir, the good die first, And they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." MY absence from England during the last ten years of the life of Sir Robert Peel, may appear to some...
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Memoir of George Wilson

Jessie Aitken Wilson - 1860 - 620 pages
...of B — L — 's convalescence. I do not wish to see more of those I love die, to prove — " That the good die first, and they whose hearts Are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket." I speak of her in connexion with flowers, because she promised to share the flowers she got sent her...
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The Great Tribulation: Or, Things Coming on the Earth

John Cumming - 1860 - 304 pages
...explains the sufferings of good men, and the incidental success of bad men ? How is it that often " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn down to the sockets I" How is it, I ask, that we see sin rampant here, sickness there, pestilence elsewhere...
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The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches

Charles William Everest - 1860 - 484 pages
...a heart-flame that may be Quenched only with thy tears. LINES On the Death of JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. "The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Bum to the socket." WORDSWORTH. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...these walls, at my approach, A daughter's welcome gave me, and" I loved her As my own child. O sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed pour Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...EXCURSION. The vision and the faculty divine. Boot i. The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. Ibid. The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. Ibid. This dull product of a scoffer's pen. Book ii. With battlements, that on their restless fronts...
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