 | Amelia E. Barr - 1906 - 344 pàgines
...young, Ruth." " I know. ' His high-born brothers called him hence ' at the age of twenty-nine, but " ' It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make men better be; • Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald and sear: A lily of a day... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 pàgines
...many political offices in his native state, and wrote several histories of Louisiana. 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 of... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1906 - 416 pàgines
...late ? How well at twenty had he fallen or stood ! For three of his four score he did no good. ii. 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... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 pàgines
...many political offices in his native state, and wrote several histories of Louisiana. 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 of... | |
 | Carl Gregg Doney - 1906 - 230 pàgines
...purpose nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness." — Jean Paul. "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 the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 pàgines
...and was formed, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air I m The Strophe, or 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... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 428 pàgines
...complete. Never was his friend Ben Jonson more truly or more happily inspired than when he sang :— 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - 1908 - 336 pàgines
...poem. Then copy it, learn it by heart, and write it from memory. SECTION 396 Write from dictation: — 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 the... | |
 | John Duncon - 1908 - 136 pàgines
...HOWARD GATEWAY IN GARDEN OF MANOR HOUSE, GREAT TEW LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1908 ' 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pàgines
...delicates would cloy me, Neither EeT^eevisEofissIaiiHoy'me. oy . J<) 515. IT IS NOT GROWING LIKE A TREE 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... | |
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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. 
