 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - 1878 - 576 pàgines
...answered, and was formed, how fair ; These make the 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 year, . To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pàgines
...wing ; May thy wide flight meet no rude foe, Delightful messenger of spring ! — 92THE NOBLE NATURE. 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 ;l A lily... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 270 pàgines
...if a turnip-field were to brag over its superiority 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 year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of... | |
 | Rev. James Wells - 1879 - 320 pàgines
...is true growth. Some children, however, are content to grow in body without growing in mind. But, " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be." The child is not all born till the mind is born and grows. Then, some children grow in body and mind,... | |
 | 1880 - 296 pàgines
...sunbeams on the rock and moor, And find a harvest-home of light. H. BONAB. » 61 » THE NOBLE NATURE. 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 : l A lily... | |
 | Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 318 pàgines
...if we compare our life with that of a tree ? Of course we may premise Ben Jonson's lovely lines : ' 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 sear : A lily... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 318 pàgines
...if we compare our life with that of a tree 1 Of course we may premise Ben Jonson's lovely lines : ' 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 sear : A lily... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pàgines
...rung at a funeral. mould, dust. pilgrim, one who travels far to visit a seored place. TRUE GROWTH. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pàgines
...back to me ; Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, hut thee. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long au oak, three hundred year, To full a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pàgines
...back to me, Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself but thee. 8. GOOD LIFE LONG LIFE. 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... | |
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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. 
