 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 912 pagina’s
...better be ; Or (landing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at hft, dry, bald, and fear : A lily of a day, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It wa. the plant and flower if light. In fmnll proportions we juts beauties fee : And in fhort meafurcs... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pagina’s
...air ! III. THE STROPHE, OR TURN. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ;4 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. * It is not growing like a tree,... | |
 | 1817 - 522 pagina’s
...in the best manner of Pindar : " It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lilly of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and Jloiaer... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. JOHN KEATS. THE TEUnOK OF DEATH.... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pagina’s
...indeed was right— ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth made men better be; Or Handing like an oak three hundred year To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far iii May, Although it fall and die that night It was the plant and flower of light. On pronouncing theso... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. SIR HENRY WOTTON. THIS elegant writer... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 pagina’s
...years, not of life, but disease — It is not growing like a tree In bulk,— doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...1658 т.,] .. Good Lift, Long Life. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...that night, It was the plant and flower of light ! In email proportions we just beauties sec : And in short measures life may perfect be. Epitaph on Ле... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pagina’s
...Ben Jonson well reminds us : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long, an oak, three hundred year To fall...die that night, It was the plant and flower of light I In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." Mrs. Gray's... | |
 | 1878 - 300 pagina’s
...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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. —Ben Jonton. "TAKE NO THOUGHT."... | |
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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. 
