| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 páginas
...our hearts, we assent to, and adopt the Poet's pathetic complaint : " O Sir ! the good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." That the humane plan described in the Pagrs now referred to, that a system in pursuance of which the... | |
| 1852 - 448 páginas
...rides through the world cutting down a victim during each second of time, choosing Jirsl the good, while those, " whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket." But in that " Better Land," do they live there still? Do they mark our thoughts and actions ? Do their... | |
| Frederick Richard Chichester (Earl of Belfast.) - 1851 - 300 páginas
...sat quietly by the bed-side, watching her slumbers. CHAPTER V. " O, Sir ! the good die first ; And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket ! — " Tear me from home at this dread moment — No ! Cruel ye are, and very hard of heart, But this... | |
| 1853 - 402 páginas
...death was one of those which reminds us of the beautiful saying of the Poet : Osir, The good die first, while those, whose hearts are dry As summer dust, burn to the socket! — EDS. GUARDIAN. I CANNOT tell the reason why, I sometimes wish that I may die In Autumn time, when... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 páginas
...our hearts, we assent to and adopt the poet's pathetic complaint : - 0, Sir 1 the good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket, f • — — Thus that the humane plan described in the pages -now referred to, a system in pursuance... | |
| Harry Croswell - 1854 - 550 páginas
...hrightest, and hest — how far short have we come of his early promise ! ' Alas ! the good die first ; And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." I am very anxious that SHERMAN, hefore he returns, should conclude upon some plan of setting the things... | |
| Theophilus Thompson - 1854 - 282 páginas
...have a foundation, and the poet may be justified in his exclamation, — " The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."* It is common to attribute the prevalence of consumption in Britain to vicissitudes of weather. Even... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 páginas
...our hearts, we assent to and adopt the poet's pathetic complaint : - 0, Sir ! the good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket. f Thus that the humane plan described in the pages now referred to, a system in pursuance of which... | |
| Wisconsin - 1856 - 1166 páginas
...such; a better and a nobler friend, I never knew. But he is dead. So true it is, " The good die first ; While those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." But death comes to us all. It is the catastrophe which make* life a tragedy, shrouding its close in... | |
| 1858 - 402 páginas
...labors, and to no one could be more appropriately applied the following lines: " The good die first ; While those whose hearts are dry as Summer dust, Burn to the socket." t But his conduct as a pupil in a public school, seems more appropriately to entitle him to a notice... | |
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