 | John Tulloch - 1872 - 494 pages
...applied prophetically to Falkland himself : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant, the flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To full ng out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing...of gold ; Iving * is to be. ALFRED TÉ.N.VYSON. " see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ЫЕ A KINGDOM IS. My minde... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pages
...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...flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. Sir FH Doyle. Supposed... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. u(. see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. 1637. GUIDANCE, Christ's. Jesus, still... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...light ! To the Memory of my Moved Master, William Shakipenre, and hath left us. GOOD LIFE LONG LIFE. . IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. The Forest. AN EPITAPH. HEBE lies, to each her parents'... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 262 pages
...when it grows, and smella, I swear, Not of itself, but thee."— The Forest. GOOD LIFE : LONG LIFE. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be." FRANCIS BEAUMONT (b. 1586, d. 1615), and JOHN FLETCHER... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 pages
...2. APRIL, 1877. VOL. III. DIVERS TRUTHS WITH VARIED APPLICATIONS. I. They live long who live well, It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...; Our life, our state, our stay, and vital breath, Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 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- see ; And iij short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т is not growing like a tree ' In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
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A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. 
