 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...do ; best reign, who first Well hath obeyed. Milton. THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long...and die that night It was the plant and flower of sight. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...JOXSON. [1574- '637-l THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Ix-tter lie; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just l>eauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred yenr, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERTJ8. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...unnatural analogies." p. xi. For the proof of this we are referred to the present ode, which, with the 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 ANTISTROPHE, OR COUNTER-TURN. | ALL, noble Lucius, then for wine,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 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 : Good Life, Long Lip. Those green-robed senators of mighty... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 pages
...spirit, Ben Jonson's admirable conclusions : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be." our faculties will permit, and to look upon it as the introduction to a grander life, where the problems... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...world of meaning within briefest compass: " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man betler be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,...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, bnt... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...JON8ON. (1574- '637-I THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year. To fall...small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUREN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. rt C - measures life may perfect be. FROM 1558 то 1625. Epitaph on the Countas of Pembroke. Underneath this... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 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. A LOVE SONG. O, do not wanton with those eyes, Lest I be sick with seeing... | |
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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... 
