 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - Počet stránok 912
...better be ; Or (landing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at hft, dry, bald, and fear : A lily of a day, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It wa. the plant and flower if light. In fmnll proportions we juts beauties fee : And in fhort meafurcs... | |
 | 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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. * It is not growing like a tree,... | |
 | 1817 - Počet stránok 522
...in the best manner of Pindar : " 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 lilly of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and Jloiaer... | |
 | 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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. JOHN KEATS. THE TEUnOK OF DEATH.... | |
 | 1840 - Počet stránok 818
...indeed was right— ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth made men better be; Or Handing like an oak three hundred year To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far iii May, Although it fall and die that night It was the plant and flower of light. On pronouncing theso... | |
 | 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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. SIR HENRY WOTTON. THIS elegant writer... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - Počet stránok 340
...years, not of life, but disease — It is not growing like a tree In bulk,— doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 692
...1658 т.,] .. Good Lift, Long Life. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...that night, It was the plant and flower of light ! In 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
...Ben Jonson well reminds us : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long, an oak, three hundred year To fall...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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. —Ben Jonton. "TAKE NO THOUGHT."... | |
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A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. 
