| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - Страниц: 332
...shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...Although it fall and die that night,— It was the plant of light. In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. GEORGE... | |
| Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - Страниц: 332
...shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant of light. In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. GEORGE... | |
| British dramatists - 1868 - Страниц: 138
...woman ? Beaumont and Fletcher. 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. Ben Johnson. THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL. It draws the grossness off the understanding, , And renders... | |
| Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - Страниц: 188
...which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like e, 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." The title given to this volume was selected because it was regarded as exceedingly expressive of the... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1868 - Страниц: 136
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bold, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. "PHILASTER." Act i., Scene 2. Philaster. I have a boy : Sent by the gods, I... | |
| George Thomas Coster - 1869 - Страниц: 112
...contemptuous, or opposing world around by a varied evangelistic agency? As the old poet says — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. " Apply these words to the life of a church — of this church. Not the size of a church, not its length... | |
| 1869 - Страниц: 436
...all. Sir H. Wotton LXXIII THE NOBLE NATURE I ~ T 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. LXXIV B. Jonson THE GIFTS OF GOD WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings standing by;... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - Страниц: 526
...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. SO NG — TO C ELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or... | |
| simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - Страниц: 460
...Kingdom teaches lessons all ought to learn. What does Ben Johnson say (oh, rare Ben Johnson !) ?— " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...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 - Страниц: 180
...verse, and, if there is thought in it, that thought will live, even though the rhythmic form perishes. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...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... | |
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