 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...standing long, an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day la fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that...in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON (1616). PASSAGES FROM THE JOURNALS OF AN OLD TRAVELLER. LANDWARD WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, THE SEVEN... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 pages
...may fear to die. It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be. THE DESERTED HOUSE. Tennyson, Life and thought have gone away, Side by... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...GEOBGE HEBBEBT. Elje ffioefo ltfe, ILong ILift. TT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be ! Or standing long an oak three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. JONSON. are not ©eat, tfjeg too but SHeey. T EFT in her little room alone, *-* The Euler's child lay... | |
 | 1857 - 448 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log nt last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it...beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth of this to myself, and to my noble Lucius near me, one grown old to... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 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...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BXH JOHSOH. THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE. • " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme, For thy rich gifts,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. CAREW. THOMAS CAREW was born AD 1589, and descended from a family of the same name, long settled in... | |
 | Walter Aimwell - 1858 - 282 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...proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures Kfe may perfect be. BEK JOKBOK. THE MOTHER'S SACELFICE. " WHAT shall I render Thee, Father Supreme,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 pages
...kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As the years go on, there gathers a special radiance of eternal youth around some of the figures from... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...had brought.] THE GOOD LIFE A LONG LIFE. 10 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, | doth make man better be ; | Or standing long, an oak three hundred...that night ; | It was the plant and flower of light. j In small proportions we just beauties see, | And in short measures life may perfect be. | 3. How... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 pages
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. A s the years go on, there gathers a special radiance of eternal youth around some of the figures from... | |
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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... 
