 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...wore, And the strong, mighty roots the giant trunks upbore. SARAH S. JACOBS : The Changeless World. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON : Good Life, Long Life. Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - 1878 - 576 pages
...lines of life, and that's her air 1 in THE TKRS. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. THE COUKTER-TUHH. Call, noblo Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness shins : Accept... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 324 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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson, THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. 49 THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...better be ; Or standing long, an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : l A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 2 Venus, the evening star. birth-place of Artemis, or Diana, 3 Cynthia, another name for the the moon... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 pages
...together filled to the brim, On the rich man's table, rim to rim. THE NOBLE N ATURE.— BEN JONSON. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...light. In small proportions we just beauties see; ME. O'HOOLAHAN'S MISTAKE. An amusing scene occurred in Justice Young's court-room an evening or two... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 pages
...life, and that's her air! m. THE TURN. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better he ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions wo just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. THE COUXTER-TUBX. Call, noble Lucius,... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 274 pages
...to a rose of Provence. What says Ben Jonson ? " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...that night : It was the plant and flower of light." Coleridge did nothing, forsooth ! as Mr. Gladstone might say. Why, he wrote Ckristabel ; but for which... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson. THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. 49 THE VIRTUOUS SOUL. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON. Virtue. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ! The dew... | |
 | Cup - 1880 - 304 pages
..., ' Matt. v.'8.v . It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be ; Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON, 1574-1637. APRIL 21. " The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." — James v. II.... | |
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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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower... 
