 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
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 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. — Ibid. SONG — TO CELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 páginas
...above us Soon the tears of sorrow gave. The perfection of life does not depend on its length : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 páginas
...Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. 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. LOVE. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of soc1ety, the spirit... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 páginas
...Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т 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 Joiison. flobember tit. NOVEMBER. DARK on the earth November lies ; Cloud, fog, and storm o'ergloom... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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. The Forest. AN EPITAPH. HEBE lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth : Yet... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 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." FRANCIS BEAUMONT (b. 1586, d. 1615), and JOHN FLETCHER (6. 1576, d. 1625). — These were two clever... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 páginas
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. Religion emphasizes little things. It does not confound bigness with greatness, nor identify the smallness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...be ; Or standing long an pak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ;, Л GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase which calls The burial-ground God's- iij short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom... | |
 | 1874 - 870 páginas
...often quoted and so quotable, containing, as they do, a world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read but studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 páginas
...skull, some, sun, stake, straight, subtler, ton, slow, soul. THE NOBLE NATURE. Ben Jonson (1574—1637). IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. LESSONS ON SPECIFIC SUBJECTS. CHEMISTRY. 1. ELEMENTARY AND COMPOUND MATTER. 1. Matter is divided into... | |
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