 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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower...  Spelling and dictation class-book - Страница 79по Constable and co, ltd - 1864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 страници
...AVestminster Abbey, and the flagstone over his grave was inscribed with the words, " O rare Ben Jonaon ! " IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man...be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, Sere, withered. To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : * A lily of a day 5 Is fairer far in May,... | |
 | Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - 1877 - 284 страници
...a brief line on her little wooden memorial, "Aged two years nine months and three days. " But — ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, - Or standing long an oak, six hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald, and sere. — A lily of a day Is fairer far in... | |
 | Mortimer Collins, Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 308 страници
...Jonson's lovely lines— " It is not growing like a tree In balk doth make men better be; Or standing like 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 fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 502 страници
...lovely lines — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be; Or standing like 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 fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 страници
...wore, And the strong, mighty roots the giant trunks upbore. SARAH S. JACOBS : The Changeless World. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May; Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 страници
...brim, On the rich man's table, rim to rim. THE NOBLE NATURE.— BEN JONSON. It is not growing like u tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing...oak, (three hundred year,) To fall a log at last, drv, bald, and sear: A lily of a d"ay Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, —... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - 1878 - 576 страници
...lines of life, and that's her air 1 in THE TKRS. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men 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 fall and die that night ; It was the plant,... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 страници
...together filled to the brim, On the rich man's table, rim to rim. THE NOBLE N ATURE.— BEN JONSON. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year,) To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear: A lily of a d'ay Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 274 страници
...to a rose of Provence. What says Ben Jonson ? " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men 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 fall and die that night : It was the plant... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1879 - 714 страници
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a. tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing Ion? an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and acre. A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
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