 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
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 страници
...nothing, yet hath 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...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... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 страници
...and fade. J. 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...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... | |
 | William Martin - 1866 - 426 страници
...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...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 dreariness... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 страници
...Regained, Book IV. LIFE — ITS TKUE ESTIMATE. 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. ' ' ' BBN JONSON. '. i TIME steals away like to a stream, And we glide hence away with him ; No sound... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 страници
...sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night,— It was the plant of light. In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. GEORGE SANDYS. Born, 1577 ; Died, 1643. PARAPHRASE OF THE CXLVIII. PSALM. You who dwell above the skies,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 страници
...sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant of light. In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. GEORGE SANDYS. Born, 1577 ; Died, 1643. PARAPHEASE OP THE CXLVIII. PSALM. You who dwell above the skies,... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - 1866 - 320 страници
...seeds of sorrow sown, Sheaves of joy around thy throne ! G00» LIFE, LONG LIFE. TN small proportion we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. LITTLE CHILDREN. aPOBTING through the forest wide, Playing by the water side, Wandering... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...in animated marble frown, And legislators seem to think in stone. Pope. STATUBE. In small proportion we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson, Good Life, Long Life. One finds out he's of stature rather low ; Your hero always should... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 страници
...which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like e, 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." The title given to this volume was selected because it was regarded as exceedingly expressive of the... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 страници
...woman ? Beaumont and Fletcher. THE NOBLE NATURE. 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 Johnson. THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL. It draws the grossness off the understanding, , And renders... | |
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