 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 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 Life. Those green-robed senators of mighty... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...is right, and prays to be so still. George Herbert. THE PERFECT LIFE. 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. Jonson. THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. 49 THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. SWEET day, so cool,... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 pages
...Not bin ; And that 's to keep thy Lent. R. HERRICK. 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. JONSON. Virtue. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1874 - 818 pages
...world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In hulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it full and die that night — It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we jnst beanties... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...entrance) we must plant a guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of 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. Or of this, from the "Ode to himself": And since our dainty age Cannot... | |
 | Rosaceae - 1927 - 332 pages
...like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." THE JUBILEE YEAR. By AJ MACSELF, Reading. The modern school of journalism... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...Horace. One famous stanza will show the free form and the meditative tone : 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. This, then, is the first of many great modern odes in which the styles... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 It is not growing like a tree Bow of burning gold: measures life may perfect be. (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 180 pages
...you will have begun to realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "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." My own language, English, I believe to have a store of poets, of writers... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. THE TURN It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long...bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, 70 Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions... | |
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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... 
