 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...  The Chilswell Book of English Poetry - Էջ 26խմբագրել է - 1924 - 272 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | David L. Larsen - 644 էջ
...like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall at last, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer...night It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportion we just beauty see; And in short measure, life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson "O rare Ben... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 էջ
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of the day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauty see. And in short measures life may perfect be. (65-74) Since the Renaissance regarded the Pindaric... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 էջ
...in the "measures" of poetry: The Noble Nature It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. (LXXIII) B. Jonson Nothing in the presentation of the poem or in Palgrave's notes tells readers not... | |
 | Margaret Carpenter Evans - 2004 - 358 էջ
...Levens some years later, she quoted Ben Jonson: It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...die that night It was the plant and flower of light. After thirty-two years of demanding, devoted service to Connecticut College, and with deteriorating... | |
 | Tommy Nelson - 2005 - 236 էջ
...wrote about this in his poem, "The Noble Nature." It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. Jonson is saying that you don't have to be a majestic threehundred-year-old oak to be beautiful. Even... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 էջ
...want] a similar lack 16 From Underwoods BEN JONSON It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. 17 Song: Fear No More The Heat O' Th' Sun WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 էջ
...capable of delicacy and restraint. Oak and Lily It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. Oh, That Joy So Soon Should Waste! Oh, that joy so soon should waste! Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - 1931 - 352 էջ
...was widely anthologized as "The Noble Nature": It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. and love and hate the heat of the sun [197] Bernard combines Susan's Catullan motif "Odi et amo" (see... | |
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