 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
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...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 far in May, Although it...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON. (Eboealion % butg of % Slats. O FOR the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - 294 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." B. THE long lives of men in the early history of the orld are a matter of interest to us, whose term... | |
 | 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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 168 PICTURES AND FLOTVEBS. THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea of the following lines was really expressed... | |
 | 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...light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines was really expressed by a little boy five years... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...of peace and rest — how long P Griffin. LIFE. 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. Hen Jonson, MELROSE. IP thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ;... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 páginas
...degree. Earl of Surrey CLXXII THE NOBLE NA TURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson CLXXIII THE RAINBOW My heart leaps... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 páginas
...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....proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures l1fe may perfect be. THE WAY TO A GOOD OLD AGE. PART II. Sctift1ms for Reading: — Deuteronomy xxxiv.... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1864 - 136 páginas
...Malay Peninsula. XLIV. THE GOOD LIFE A LONO LIFE. 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. XLV. POTTEKY. Pottery is one of the most ancient as well as one of the most interesting... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 páginas
...thought. QUEEN ELIZABETH I 30 THE GOOD LIFE LONG LIFE is not growing like a tree in bulk, doth make Man better be; or standing long an oak, three hundred...flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties sec ; and in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON 31 ON A GRECIAN URN WHO are these coming... | |
 | Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 152 páginas
...Glorious and bright throughout Eternity ! WE WILLIS. T 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. ID small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. ARK... | |
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