 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...fade ; But gain a good name by well doing my duty; THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. THE ROBIN'S TEMPERANCE SONG. TASKED a sweet... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Stoic severe. Paradise Regained, Book IV. LIFE — ITS TKUE ESTIMATE. 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. ' ' ' BBN JONSON. '. i TIME steals away like to a stream, And we glide... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...and good as she, Time 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...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 - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...and good as she, Time 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...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 - Quotations, English - 1868 - 138 pages
...glorious death in child and woman ? Beaumont and Fletcher. 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. Ben Johnson. THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL. It draws the grossness off the... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 pages
...others into the path by 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,...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." The title given to this volume was selected because it was regarded... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...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...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. "PHILASTER." Act i., Scene 2. Philaster. I have... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - Congregational churches - 1869 - 112 pages
...evangelistic agency? As the old poet says — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. " Apply these words to the life of a church — of this church. Not the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 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. — Ibid. SO NG — TO C ELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1869 - 568 pages
...standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." — Ben Jonton. of Boohs. Life of Jesus for the Young. By Benjamin Clarke.... | |
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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... 
