 | 1843 - 676 ページ
...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."* Wordsworth's " Excursion.'' If ever separation was dreaded by mother and daughter, — if ever two... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1847 - 338 ページ
...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 two human beings strove to conceal,... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1849 - 444 ページ
...the hardhearted ? 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 two human beings strove to conceal,... | |
 | 1852 - 302 ページ
...power, and was seldom very original. That thought of Wordsworth's— .... The best die first, While they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket, he has used in two poems; once in the domestic story of the " Lost Lamb " — When from the flocks... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 ページ
...power, and was seldom very original. That thought of Wordsworth's — .... The best die first, While they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket, he has used in two poems; once in the domestic story of the " Lost Lamb " — When from the flocks... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 ページ
...Down virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. IV. — SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE. THE good die first ; And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the... | |
 | John Caird - 1858 - 426 ページ
...text. It is not always the holiest men who live the longest. Oftentimes "the good die first, whilst they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust burn to the socket." There is something more than mere sentimentality in the saying not seldom heard from sorrowing lips... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 ページ
...IV. Scene 2. (Salisbury to the King on his being crowned n GOOD.— Oh, sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket. WORDSWORTH. — The Excursion, Book L Page 21. Are you good men and true ? SHAESPERE. — Much Ado... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 ページ
...their food, For all the luxury of doing good. Garth, Claremont, 148. Oh. sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket. Wordsworth, The Excursion, I. 21. GOOD DEEDS. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom... | |
 | Malcolm M'Lachlan Harper - 1876 - 336 ページ
...buried here, and as we look on his grave the words of the poet recur : — "The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket." Close to the churchyard is an ancient moat which tradition says was in former times used as a place... | |
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Oh, sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket. 
