 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 flower...  Littell's Living Age - Страница 1931874Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1864 - 428 страници
...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. From a Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir II. Morison. BEN JONSON. LIFE AND LETTEES or DAYID COIT SCUDDER.... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 страници
...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. THE FATHER ON HIS DEAR SON, GERVAIS BEAUMONT. I, who have for others oft compiled The songs... | |
 | Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 152 страници
...Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die 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 ! 'tis the summons of the Alpine horn ! |The Sun has sunk beneath old Gothard's brow,... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 страници
...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton XCIV THE GOOD LIFE — LONG LIFE IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson SIN T ORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! .L ? Parents first season us : then... | |
 | Life thoughts - 1865 - 196 страници
...chastisement of God.— SOUTH. The 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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. Silent Prayer. THREEFOLD are the prayers of man to God, and their efficacy is also ascending... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 страници
...JOHNSON TO JAMES SHIRLEY. Period Third. Jlife's 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 JON SON. Co tfr l&olp Cunttj'. O HOLY, blessed, glorious Trinity Of Persons, still one God in unity,... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 страници
...GROWTH. TRUE GROWTH. 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,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE HOARY HEAD A CROWN OF GLORY. WHILE we call old age the winter of our life, we must beware lest... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 страници
...LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an t>ak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. xcv SIN Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters... | |
 | A. M. G. B. - 1865 - 138 страници
...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, 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...see ; And in short measures life may perfect be." B. Jossos. 1 PTEE paying a short visit to her aunts in Leicester"*-*• shire, in the autumn of 1858,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 страници
...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... | |
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