 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
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 180 pàgines
...will live, even though the rhythmic form perishes. 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 sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | Edis Searle - 1871 - 390 pàgines
...CHAPTER I. AT HOME. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing like 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... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pàgines
...COLERIDGE. 562 POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. cohPOEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. THE NOBLE NATURE. and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring...of truth and right, Ring in the common love of go full a log at last, dry, bald, and sear :, A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 pàgines
...\Exeunt. THE GOOD LIFE—LONG LlFE.-£en Jonson 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 sere ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 pàgines
...shore. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. TT 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 sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pàgines
...earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco In bulk, doth make men . (. u(. sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...; 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... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mr. Faversham, Mrs. Woodward, Author of Ellen Clinton - 1873 - 446 pàgines
...sufficiently apparent to call forth the wonder and admiration of every one except himself. CHAPTER XVIII. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May." BEN JONSON. <{ FROM what... | |
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