 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 Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 страници
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred yenr, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERTJ8. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 страници
...and die that night — It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we jnst beanties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As...knowledge his works afford us of the age in which ha lived ; but we venture to think that his highest claim upon posterity rests on the pastoral and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 страници
...guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of 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. Or of this, from the "Ode to himself": And since our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 страници
...world, while those who can love draw together in a magic circle of enduring beauty, strength and grace. "In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." But the very perfection of these books points to the weakness of the Spiritual Soul culture. Human... | |
 | 1927 - 332 страници
...like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." THE JUBILEE YEAR. By AJ MACSELF, Reading. The modern school of journalism would probably insist that... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 страници
...will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then, is the first of many great modern odes in which the styles of the two great classical lyricists,... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - 1991 - 372 страници
...00 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 CIP data appear at the end of the book IN MEMORY OF RICHARD C. NEWTON In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS RI TING MATTER, as my Introduction indicates, has a number of debts to the work of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 страници
...lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Each battle sees (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply That liking; and... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - 180 страници
...realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred...see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language, English, I believe to have a store of poets, of writers that need not fear comparison... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 страници
...standing long an oak, three hundred year. To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day 70 Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. The Countenurn 75 Call, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness shine; Accept... | |
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