 | Margaret Carpenter Evans - 2004 - 358 páginas
...condolence to her Oxford friends Daphne and Robert Levens some years later, she quoted Ben Jonson: It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...die that night It was the plant and flower of light. After thirty-two years of demanding, devoted service to Connecticut College, and with deteriorating... | |
 | Walter Barnes - 2004 - 512 páginas
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 | Tommy Nelson - 2005 - 236 páginas
...you'll be inspired to do your work right. Ben Jonson wrote about this in his poem, "The Noble Nature." It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...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. Jonson is saying... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 páginas
...happiness condole] commiserate with roll] catalogue like want] a similar lack 16 From Underwoods BEN JONSON It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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. 17 Song: Fear... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - 1931 - 352 páginas
...Sir Lucius Gary and Sir H. Morison." This first stanza was widely anthologized as "The Noble Nature": It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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. and love and... | |
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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... 
