 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - Страниц: 794
...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 : Good Life, Long Lip. Those green-robed senators of mighty woods. Tall oaks, branch-charmed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - Страниц: 474
...quoted we would oppose, as far worthier of a gallant spirit, Ben Jonson's admirable conclusions : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be." our faculties will permit, and to look upon it as the introduction to... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - Страниц: 466
...world of meaning within briefest compass: " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man betler be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read, bnt studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - Страниц: 562
...JON8ON. (1574- '637-I THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year. To fall...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUREN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - Страниц: 460
...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. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing; Nor cast them down, but... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Страниц: 870
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. rt C - FROM 1558 то 1625. Epitaph on the Countas of Pembroke. Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - Страниц: 454
...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. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing ; Nor cast them down, but... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - Страниц: 766
...While time glides softly by, A little farther from the earth, And nearer to the sky. 1648. GROWTH. True ing ; Land of the dead and the dying ; Into a land...without tomb. Out of a life of commotion, Tempest-swept Jonson. 1649. GROWTH IN GRACE : desired. Он, Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede... | |
 | Lady Frances Parthenope Verney - 1877 - Страниц: 282
...In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, six hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald, and sere.— A lily of a day Is fairer...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." I : : 265 la: little life on THE LATJEEL BUSH: AN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE STOEY. Post 8vo, 10s. 6d. MY MOTHEE... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - Страниц: 326
...needed not ! W. Wordsworth * 67 * TRUE GROWTH 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 planf and flower of Light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life... | |
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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... 
