 | 424 páginas
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; By standing long, an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry bald and sere ; A lily...light. In small proportions, we just beauties see, Arid in short measures, life may perfect be. FOR LONDON BIBLE AND DOMESTIC FEMALE MISSIONS. Money received... | |
 | A. M. G. B. - 1865 - 138 páginas
...freedom. CHAPTEE II. Jfirst Jlltuss. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Altho' it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 páginas
...ELM AT BRENTWOOD . 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. Ben Jonson. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS . Gilbert R. Barnes Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ibid. In small proportion we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Good Life, Long Life. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die ; Which in life did... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 páginas
...H. NEWMAN. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long, an oak, three hundred year, To fall...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. ON HIS BEING ARRIVED TOTHE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...all. Bcn 3onson. THE NOBLE NATURE. TT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. HYMN TO DIANA. T~\RINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 páginas
...THE NOBLE NATURE. ' *? p fj^l';'. T is not growing like a tree gj In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measure life may perfect be. B. Jonson. CCIX. CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE. happy is he born and taught... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 páginas
...well doing my duty; THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. THE ROBIN'S TEMPERANCE SONG. TASKED a sweet... | |
 | William Martin - 1866 - 426 páginas
...hundred yeare, To fall a logge at last — dry, bald, and scare. z A lillie of a day, Is fairer farr, in May, Although it fall, and die that night, It was...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be, As in a painter's picture you may see ! THE DOWRY PICTURE. THE DOWRY PICTURE. NOW is the season of... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - 432 páginas
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
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A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be. 
