 | Edis Searle - 1871 - Страниц: 390
...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 year, To fall a log at last,...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - Страниц: 968
...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 - Страниц: 168
...Farewell. The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell. \Exeunt. THE GOOD LIFE—LONG LlFE.-£en Jonson IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...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... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - Страниц: 362
...felt the pledge And sweetness of the farther shore. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. TT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make men...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. I WILL ARISE. A 1 7"HO, toiling on the weary round of life, * * But feels sometimes, —... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 710
...little farther from the earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco er Ben Jonson. 1637. GUIDANCE, Christ's. Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won ; And although the... | |
 | Book - 1872 - Страниц: 326
...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,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - Страниц: 268
...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... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - Страниц: 282
...Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т 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 Joiison. flobember tit. NOVEMBER. DARK on the earth November lies ; Cloud, fog, and storm o'ergloom... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - Страниц: 276
...Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. 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 Jonson. LOVE. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of soc1ety, the spirit... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - Страниц: 512
...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. The Forest. AN EPITAPH. HEBE lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth : Yet... | |
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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... 
