 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...  Biographical and Critical Studies - Pàgina 147per James Thomson - 1896 - 483 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...have tasted the bag of the bee t 0 so white 1 0 so soft ! 0 so sweet is she ! Good Life, Long Life. ers' fingers, who straight dream on fees ; O'er ladies'...tainted are. Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's »us the plant and flower of light I In small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...the bag of the bee ! 0 to white ! 0 so lof t ! 0 to sweet is she ! то 1649. Good Life, Long Life, trod ; Nor let the water rising hi<;h, As thou wad'st in, make thee cry And eear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pàgines
...; Thou entertaining in thy breast But such a mind, makest Ood thy guest. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pàgines
...sweet is she I то 1649. Good Life, Long Life. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth iiüikr nigh(d full a log at last, dry, bald, and eear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pàgines
...have tasted the bag of the bee I 0 so white ! 0 so soft ! 0 »o sweet i* ahe I Good Life, Long Life. full a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pàgines
...The cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light, to warm And beautify the flower ? * EARLY RIPE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, * Anonymous,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pàgines
...gives thee power to be, and use the same. BEN JONSON. BORX, 1574; DIED, 1637. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. 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... | |
 | 1879 - 474 pàgines
...days and years merely, but in pure thoughts, and Christ-like activities. Old Ben Johnson sings : — " 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 a plant... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pàgines
...develop when they shall bow to the sceptre, and imbibe the pacific spirit, of the Prince of Peace ! IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day la fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light !... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pàgines
...of the House of Commons, and of the many great bulky men you find there. But, as tien Jonson says, . . . . " To-day I dine with Mackintosh and Airs. Stale — (as And when Lord John Russell speaks, yon soon find that in him, as in all of us, " the mind's the measure... | |
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