 | William Oldys - 1740 - 348 էջ
...Each fyllable anfwer'd, and was form'd ; how fair Thefe make the lines of life, and that's her air. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or ftanding long an oak, three hundred year To fall a log, at la!! , dry, old, and fear : A lily of a... | |
 | 1921 - 432 էջ
...domain of action, or of making. Man makes himself, and his institutions, for better or for worse : ' It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be.' When we speak of growth, in this sphere, we are using a metaphor or simile. The institution of which... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 էջ
...mother's arms were longing for her absent son. Although he was young in years, he was rich in good works. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the flower and... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 էջ
...mother's arms were longing for her absent son. Although he was young in years, he was rich in good works. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the flower and... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 էջ
...art possessed ; Thou entertaining in thy breast But such a mind, makest God thy guest. THE 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 year. To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 էջ
...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 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,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 էջ
...(I know them well), that in the fulness of a father's grief for his ' early ripe,' he wrote, — ' It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make man better he ; Or standing long, nn oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : —... | |
 | 1878 - 300 էջ
...bright, Nor those who climb are heroes less, Though I must walk in night. — Spectator. THE GOOD LITE, 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 a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 էջ
...have tasted the bag of the bee ! 0 to white ! 0 so lof t ! 0 to sweet is she ! то 1649. Good Life, thou hast trod ; Nor let the water rising hi<;h, As thou wad'st in, make thee cry And long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and eear. A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
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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... 
