 | 1861 - 228 páginas
...head from the top to the bottom? GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. EXTRACT FROM AN ODE PINDARIC. AUTHOR BORN 1754. A LILY of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...and flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines was really expressed by a little... | |
 | 1861 - 236 páginas
...the top to the bottom ? GOOD LIFE, LONG LITE. EXTBACT FROM AN ODE PlNDARIO. AUTHOR BORN 1764. A LILT of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and...and flower of light ! In small proportions. we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 168 PICTURES AND FLOTVEBS. THE CHILD'S REVERIE.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...To the Memory of a Youth," after the long-standing oak says : — A lillie of a day Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night : — It was the plant and flower of light. The month has its blighted promises. Shakspeare has this line : Rough winds do shake the darling buds... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. WOTTON. |n 8^ori nuasurw %'ilt mag pufetl be. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | Charles Stanford - 1861 - 430 páginas
...JACET DOMINVS JOSEPHVS ALLEINE HOLOCAVSTVM TAVNTONENSIS ET DEO ET VOBIS. An old poet has said : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...song ; How long those blissful days be thine, Oh, land of peace and rest — how long P Griffin. LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Hen Jonson, MELROSE. IP thou wouldst view... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1862 - 308 páginas
...on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die. Ifra. Henums. Bm Jonsott It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | 1863 - 982 páginas
...though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir H. Wotton I LXXIII THE NOBLE NATURE ' T is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD WHEN God... | |
 | 1863 - 438 páginas
...having nothing, yet hath all. Sir H. Wotton LXXIII THE NOBLE NATURE TT is not growing like a tree JL In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jotison LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD WHEN God... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 páginas
...strength of our manhood ; and thou wilt not cast us off in our age. Bless the Lord, O our souls. Amen. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or, standing long, an oak three-hundred year, To fall a log at last — dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in... | |
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It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and... 
