 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...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Strana 662podľa William Cullen Bryant - 1877Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - Počet stránok 464
...air ! III. THE STROPHE, OR TURN. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ;4 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. * It is not growing like a tree, &c.] " The qaalities of rind perception and happy expression"... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - Počet stránok 1022
...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...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. JOHN KEATS. THE TEUnOK OF DEATH. WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - Počet stránok 624
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. SIR HENRY WOTTON. THIS elegant writer was born in Kent, in 1568. He enjoyed several public offices... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - Počet stránok 340
...outlived many friends, and laden as I am with sin, have been granted years, not of life, but disease — It is not growing like a tree In bulk,— doth make...beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth of this to myself, and to my noble Lucins near me, one grown old... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 692
...the bee ! О so white ! 0 so soft ! 0 so sweet is she ! гном 1658 т.,] .. Good Lift, Long Life. ther therefore the rose, while yet is prime, email proportions we just beauties sec : And in short measures life may perfect be. Epitaph on Ле... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - Počet stránok 606
...mere duration is, after all, no true standard for judging ; and Ben Jonson well reminds us : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...die that night, It was the plant and flower of light I In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." Mrs. Gray's... | |
 | 1878 - Počet stránok 300
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. —Ben Jonton. "TAKE NO THOUGHT." OH, leave thyself to God, and if, indeed, 'Tis given thee to... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - Počet stránok 850
...of art t They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. -BEN JONSON (1574—1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...light ! In small proportions we just beauties see t And in short measures life nIay perfect be. —lUd. ADVICE TO A RECKLESS YOUTR WHAT would I have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - Počet stránok 712
...have tasted the bag of the bee t 0 so white 1 0 so soft ! 0 so sweet is she ! Good Life, Long Life. ers' fingers, who straight dream on fees ; O'er ladies'...tainted are. Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's »us the plant and flower of light I In small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - Počet stránok 578
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THOMAS CAREW. THIS poet was born about 1577. He received his education at Corpus Christ! College,... | |
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