 | 1880 - Страниц: 296
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : l A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSOM. • 62 * OUR STATE. THE South land boasts its teeming cane ; The prairied West, its heavy... | |
 | Louisa Macduff - 1880 - Страниц: 304
...better be ; Or standing like 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, 1574-1637. APRIL 21. " The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." — James v. II.... | |
 | Cup - 1880 - Страниц: 304
...better be ; Or standing like 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, 1574-1637. APRIL 21. " The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." — James v. II.... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 730
...reached, nor manhood in its true sense developed. It ia 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. One last section of my work remains. Let me sum up in a few words the ground hitherto traversed. We... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Страниц: 304
...guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of 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. Or of this, from the "Ode to himself": And since our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself... | |
 | 1927 - Страниц: 332
...like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." THE JUBILEE YEAR. By AJ MACSELF, Reading. The modern school of journalism would probably insist that... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - Страниц: 802
...will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then, is the first of many great modern odes in which the styles of the two great classical lyricists,... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - Страниц: 432
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Страниц: 1172
...lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Each battle sees (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply That liking; and... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - Страниц: 180
...realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred...see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language, English, I believe to have a store of poets, of writers that need not fear comparison... | |
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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... 
