 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pàgines
...moving from place degrees of inclination, or to place, not stationary ; ap- gradually. THE PERFECT LIFE. 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pàgines
...back to me ; Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. he rocks and shores, The forest and the everlasting hills, ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, aud sere : A lily... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pàgines
...mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. WILLIAM SIIAKSPEARE (b. 15G4), 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... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pàgines
...inevitable, and which has since become a proverb, " God defend the right" AP Stanley. XXX TRUE WORTH.1 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pàgines
...The only hope of the community is in the co-operation of its individuals for the true and the right. 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pàgines
...they shine, 'The Hand that made us is divine'. i&tnot BEN JONSON. Born 1573. Died 1637. 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pàgines
...shine, "The Hand that made us is divine." MINOR POETS. BEN JONSON. Born 1573. Died 1637. 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1885 - 154 pàgines
...enjoyed their friendship, and it was to their " immortal memory " that he wrote the following lines.] 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. 33. dark... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 454 pàgines
...without particular referenee to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison : — 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 laat, dry, bald, and Mar; A lily of a... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - 1886 - 346 pàgines
...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton THE GOOD LIFE — LONG LIFE 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... | |
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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. 
