The brow that you praised has colder grown, And hearts will change, I suppose they must, A rose to be lasting, should blossom in stone, Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Dead are the rose, the love, and the trust, Forever.

Time healeth; and the dead are dead and gone. ADMETUS.

"What has been done is for the good and the profit of the kingdom," said he; "the dead were false and wicked traitors."

The dead are dead and silent, Only the living love; And I am fair and blooming Dost feel my wild heart move!

The living are for the world, the dead are Thine.

And there kneeled two maids in white, one to the right and one to the left of Mine Own, and they to be for Faithfulness, and did be maids, because that they watched by a maid; and had likewise been matrons, if that the Dead had been wife unto any.

Since, then, the vote of full two thousand years Has crown'd this plot, and all the dead are theirs, Think it a debt you pay, not alms you give,

In case the dead was a man of importance, or if the family could afford it, even though he were not, one or several horses (generally, in the former case, those which the departed thought most of) are shot and placed under the scaffold.

Him, thus dismay'd, the approaching barons found; Outstretch'd he lay, and weeping, on the ground; To reckless ears their summons they declar'd, Lost was his fay, for nought beside he car'd; So forth they led him, void of will or word, Dead was his heart within, his wretched life abhorr'd.

Dick's dead, as you sayWell, and how?I have a many questions to ask you Here is an instance of insensibility which in real life would be revolting, or rather in real life could not have co-existed with the warm-hearted temperament of the character.

Dead are the lovers so fondly mated!

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Baldulph lay dead upon the mount, and dead also was Colgrin.

And many goodly buildings go to wrack; Many a widow weep her dying son, And many a mother to her weeping babes Cry out uncomfortably, "Children, peace, Your crying unto me is all in vain, Dead is my husband, your poor father slain!"

No doubt the Sheldon Center dead would have the same tastes as the Sheldon Center living; for, after all, we forget, in our idealization of them, that the dead, like the living, are a vast bourgeoisie.

The dead are witnesses of the compact between you and us.

If the dead be a little girl, the young girls meet and eat what is provided; if it be a man, then men assemble for the same purpose.

Dead is the door-nail.

Dead are now those grenadiers; Quelled are Europe's anxious fears; By the Seine the Emperor sleeps; France her watch beside him keeps; But the lonely Horse Shoe stair Still preserves its sombre air, For the light of long ago Falls no more on Fontainebleau.

Dead is my well-content, And buried deep my pride.

For its calm hath fled, and countless dead Are the spoils it loves to heap.

Greenhill was removed looking more dead than alivethough every one remarked that Mr. Greenhill senior looked determined and not the least worried.

I have a second sight, Henry, and it shows me you dead on the floor there, looking bigger than ever, and I see the gun smoking in my hand and my heart as dead as ashes!

Gentlemen, I give you another great hammerCharles the Hammer, the Marteau, or, in old French, the Martelhe hammered the Saracens till they were all as dead as door-nailshe did, believe me.

With very rare exceptions they are as dead as mutton, and much less nourishing.