 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...glorious page of old. Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т 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 Joiison. flobember tit. NOVEMBER. DARK on the earth November lies... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...stay, and vital breath, Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. 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 Jonson. LOVE. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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. The Forest. AN EPITAPH. HEBE lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 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." FRANCIS BEAUMONT (b. 1586, d. 1615), and JOHN FLETCHER (6. 1576, d.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...be ; Or standing long an pak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ;, Л GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase which calls The burial-ground God's- iij short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...Scour downward from the top. 0 King, begin with thine ! 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 JONSON. AMERICAN SAINTS. The canonized saints or beatified servants... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...NOBLE NATURE. grow-ing pro por-tions hun-dred stand-ing per-fect fair-er 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 Jonson. 46.— THE BATTLE OF CRECY. PART I. mar-shal con-sta-ble... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...soul. THE NOBLE NATURE. Ben Jonson (1574—1637). 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. LESSONS ON SPECIFIC SUBJECTS. CHEMISTRY. 1. ELEMENTARY AND COMPOUND MATTER.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...world of meaning within briefest compass : — 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. As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read but... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...recommends himself to the applause of those about him. THE NOBLE NATURE. 41. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long',...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. f In small proportions we just beauties see ; _ And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON.... | |
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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... 
