 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.  Every-day Religion - Էջ 359James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 464 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Edis Searle - 1871 - 390 էջ
...APTPT3. ZTTTTL HETTY'S RESOLVE. CHAPTER I. AT HOME. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing like an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. " SHE seemed really sorry about it. Well, it is strange. I should never have thought she... | |
 | simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - 460 էջ
...Johnson !) ?— " 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,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." Edmund Waller says truly— " Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired." But in another... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 180 էջ
...rhythmic form perishes. 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,...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. It may. At the same time the short-lived ' flower of light,' with all its dainty beauty and subtle... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 էջ
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and scar ^ s without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, Or but...thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein l finde... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 էջ
...LlFE.-£en 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,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. Sir FH Doyle. Supposed to be narrated by a soldier who s^lrv^ved. (The... | |
 | 1872 - 710 էջ
...1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long Ben Jonson. 1637. GUIDANCE, Christ's. Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won ; And although the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 էջ
...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...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ibid. SONG — TO CELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 էջ
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. True, indeed, it is that — Youth is not rich in time : it may be, poor. Part with it,... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 էջ
...of death. Boweman. 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,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. LOVE. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of soc1ety, the spirit... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 էջ
...NOBLE NATURE. ' Т 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,...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Joiison. flobember tit. NOVEMBER. DARK on the earth November lies ; Cloud, fog, and storm o'ergloom... | |
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