| 1858 - 588 Seiten
...the moment he was about to enter the vineyard ! Wordsworth says : — " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." The dispensation is an impressive one, and reads lessons of much moment to us all. The young must feel... | |
| 1858 - 402 Seiten
...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... | |
| Charles S. Middleton - 1858 - 404 Seiten
...beauty on the grave of young Adonais, he sleeps in peace. CONCLUSION. " The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." THE flames that lighted up Shelley's funeral pyre were not fairly extinguished when the tardy world already... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - 1863 - 372 Seiten
...had left an impression on 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, t Thus that the humane plan described in the pages now referred to, a system in pursuance of which... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 854 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt. All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together...good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer's dnst Burn to the socket I 14, ISI6. ALASTOR ; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE. EARTII, ocean, air,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 744 Seiten
...snddenly makes itself felt. All else, -selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforesceing multitndes who constitute, together with their own, the lasting...and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. The (food die first, And thosf whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Born to the socket 1 Ltttmber 14,... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1865 - 834 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together...love not their fellow-beings, live unfruitful lives, nnd prepare for their old age a miserable grave. The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1865 - 562 Seiten
...left an impression on 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, i Burn to the soeket.f Thus that the humane plan described in the pages now referred to, a system in... | |
| 1866 - 496 Seiten
...when the vacancy of their spirit suddenly makes itself felt All else, selfish, blind, and torpid, are those unforeseeing multitudes who constitute, together...good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket 1 December 14, 1815. ALASTOR; THJ5 SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE. EARTH, ocean,... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 Seiten
...be avenged by darkness, decay, and extinction," and that " the selfish, blind, and torpid multitudes constitute, together with their own, the lasting misery and loneliness of the world," is taught in this poem with vivid power by one who In lone and silent hours, When night makes a weird... | |
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