...did my steps Approach this 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,...summer dust Burn to the socket. Many a passenger Hath blessed poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld the cool refreshment drawn From that forsaken...

...an 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,...

...wield a stronger influence than before. How many illustrations do the words of Wordsworth receive — "The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." But the length of a life is not to be measured merely by the number of its days and years— " We live...

...more mercy at his relentless hand, than vice, deformity, or infamy. Ay, how often is it even that " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as Summer dust, Burn to the socket." How many of those whom we delight to love and remember, has he cut down within the past short half...

...these 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...

...these 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...

...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...

...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...

...selfish, the calculating, 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...

...strong 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...