 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! THE NOBLE NATURE. TT Is not growing like a tree -*- In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long...A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it foil and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties... | |
 | simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - 460 pages
...Ben Johnson say (oh, rare Ben Johnson !) ?— " 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." Edmund Waller says truly— " Small is the worth Of beauty from the... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - Longevity - 1871 - 180 pages
...will live, even though the rhythmic form perishes. 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. It may. At the same time the short-lived ' flower of light,' with all... | |
 | Edis Searle - 1871 - 390 pages
...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,...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. " SHE seemed really sorry about it. Well, it is strange.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...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...thy blush ? Rebellious hell, If thou canst mutine in measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom is... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...shore. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. TT 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. BEN JONSON. I WILL ARISE. A 1 7"HO, toiling on the weary round of life,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - Readers - 1872 - 168 pages
...\Exeunt. THE GOOD LIFE—LONG LlFE.-£en Jonson 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. THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. Sir FH Doyle. Supposed to be narrated by... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco In bulk, doth make men . (. u(. measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. 1637. GUIDANCE, Christ's. Jesus, still lead on, Till our... | |
 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 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. BEN JONSON. True, indeed, it is that — Youth is not rich in time :... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 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. SONG — TO CELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I... | |
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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... 
