 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...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Página 314de Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1874 - 820 páginas
...top. 0 King, begin with thine ! THE NOBLE NATURE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. AMERICAN SAINTS. The canonized saints or beatified servants | of God who lived or labored... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 páginas
...por-tions hun-dred stand-ing per-fect fair-er It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be , Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. 46.— THE BATTLE OF CRECY. PART I. mar-shal con-sta-ble scoun-drel bat-tal-i-on e-quip-ped... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 páginas
...applause of those about him. THE NOBLE NATURE. 41. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long', an oak, three hundred...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. f In small proportions we just beauties see ; _ And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 páginas
...first Well hath obeyed. Milton. THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred...and die that night It was the plant and flower of sight. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 páginas
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred yenr, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERTJ8. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 páginas
...JOXSON. [1574- '637-l THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Ix-tter lie; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just l>eauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 páginas
...unnatural analogies." p. xi. For the proof of this we are referred to the present ode, which, with the A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. THE ANTISTROPHE, OR COUNTER-TURN. | ALL, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May; Although it...beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON : Good Life, Long Lip. Those green-robed senators of mighty woods. Tall oaks, branch-charmed... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 páginas
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day . 5 Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. to B. s1 a prodigal's favourite, wasting the many gifts of Youth 22 a miser' s pensioner, getting the... | |
 | 1875 - 260 páginas
...long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fair* far, in May, Although it fall and die that night,...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be BEN JOMSCOT. THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme, For thy rich gifts,... | |
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