 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 802 pàgines
...quoted and so quotable, containing, as they do, a world of meaning within briefest compass :— It ii not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hnnired year, To (all a log at lost, dry, bald, and sere : A lily... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pàgines
...was form'd, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air ! 1n. THE STROPHE, OR TURN. |T is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ;4 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : 4 // is... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pàgines
...was form'd, how fair ; These make the lines of life, and that's her air ! in. THE STROPHE, OR TURN. is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ;4 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 460 pàgines
...stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. 1 OF EARLY DYING. 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... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1876 - 292 pàgines
...wrote some verses on his tablets, and afterwards read them aloud. The lines began in this way : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, a log, dry, bald, and sear." And then... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 pàgines
...quoted we would oppose, as far worthier of a gallant spirit, Ben Jonson's admirable conclusions : — " 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... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 pàgines
...stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof.1 OF EARLY DYING. 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... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pàgines
...answered, and was formed, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air l m. THE TURN. 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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pàgines
...While time glides softly by, A little farther from the earth, And nearer to the sky. 1648. GROWTH. True ing ; Land of the dead and the dying ; Into a land without tom ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of... | |
 | Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 502 pàgines
...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 of... | |
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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. 
