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" Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. "
Southern Literary Messenger - Page 170
1850
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pages
...door but «he who dwelt within A daughter's welcome gave me, and 1 loved her As my own child. O, sir! she cried L—d preserve Born to the socket Man/ a ,tssenger Hath bless'd poor Margaret for her gentle looks, When she upheld...
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Reveries of a Bachelor. Or a Book of the Heart

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1851 - 320 pages
...through the screen, yellow and warm, as a harvest sun. It is in its best age, and that age is ripeneiB. A ripe heart ! — now I know what Wordsworth meant,...socket ! The town clock is striking midnight. The cold of the night-wind is urging its way in at the door and window-crevice ; the fire has sunk almost...
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Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1851 - 314 pages
...yellow and warm, as a harvest sun. It is in its best age, and that age is ripenete. A ripe heart!—now I know what Wordsworth meant, when he said, The good...the socket! The town clock is striking midnight. The cold of the night-wind is urging its way in at the door and window-crevice ; the fire has sunk almost...
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REVERIES OF A BACHELOR OR BOOK OF THE HEART

JK MARVEL - 1851 - 318 pages
...be sure ! But whoever heard of one ? Wordsworth somewhere in the Excursion, says :— The good cie first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket ! What, in the namc of llydal Mount, is a dry heart ? A dusty one, I can coneeive of: a bachelor's...
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Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1851 - 316 pages
...bo sure ! But whoever heard of one ? Wordsworth somewhere in the Excursion, says : — The good tie first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket ! What, in the name of llydal Mount, is a dry heart ? A dusty one, I can conceive of : a bachelor's...
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The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1851 - 252 pages
...battle-day ? ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. OF NEW-YORK, SEPT., 1820. " The good die first, Aud they, whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket." WORDSWORTH. GREEN be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee,...
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Reveries of a Bachelor: Or, A Book of the Heart

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1852 - 318 pages
...will, keep it there, unerring. The fire shows through the screen, yellow and warm, as a harvest sun. It is in its best age, and that age is ripeness. A ripe heart!—now I know what Wordsworth meant, when he said, The good die first, And they whose hearts...
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Reveries of a Bachelor; Or, A Book of the Heart

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1852 - 362 pages
...foul thing to be sure ! But whoever heard of one ? Wordsworth somewhere in the Excursion, says : — The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Bum to the socket ! What, in the name of Rydal Mount, is a dry heart ? A dusty one, I can conceive...
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Reveries of a bachelor: or, A book of the heart, by Ik. Marvel

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1852 - 346 pages
...through the screen, yellow and warm, as a harvest sun. It is in its best age, and that age is ripeness. "The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Bum to the socket ! " The town clock is striking midnight. The cold of the night-wind is urging its...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...door but she who dwelt within A daughter's welcome gave me, and I loved her As my own child. O, sir ! a duit 2N Burn to the socket. "•••'. n,:, a ,issenger Hath bless'd poor Margaret for her gentle...
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