 | 1857 - 448 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log nt last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it...small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth of this to myself, and to my noble... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - Children - 1858 - 262 pages
...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...small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BXH JOHSOH. THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. • " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. CAREW. THOMAS CAREW was born AD 1589, and descended from a family of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1878 - 828 pages
...that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As the years go on, there gathers a special radiance of eternal youth... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...empty hands unto the grave had brought.] THE GOOD LIFE A LONG LIFE. 10 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, | doth make man better be ; | Or standing...that night ; | It was the plant and flower of light. j In small proportions we just beauties see, | And in short measures life may perfect be. | 3. How... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir ff. Wotlon THE NOBLE NATURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD When God at first made Man, Having a glass... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - Bible - 1861 - 294 pages
...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...small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." B. THE long lives of men in the early history of the orld are a matter... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...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...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON. (Eboealion % butg of % Slats. O FOR the coming of that glorious... | |
 | Children in literature - 1861 - 236 pages
...the top to the bottom ? GOOD LIFE, LONG LITE. EXTBACT FROM AN ODE PlNDARIO. AUTHOR BORN 1764. A LILT of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and...small proportions. we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 168 PICTURES AND FLOTVEBS. THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea of the following... | |
 | Children in literature - 1861 - 228 pages
...head from the top to the bottom? GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. EXTRACT FROM AN ODE PINDARIC. AUTHOR BORN 1754. A LILY of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines was really expressed by a little boy five years... | |
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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... 
