 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...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 314by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 262 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it...beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be." FRANCIS BEAUMONT (b. 1586, d. 1615), and JOHN FLETCHER (6. 1576, d. 1625). — These were two clever... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 pages
...standing long an oak, three 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...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. Religion emphasizes little things. It does not confound bigness with greatness, nor identify the smallness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...be ; Or standing long an pak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ;, Л GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase which calls The burial-ground God's- iij short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...often quoted and so quotable, containing, as they do, a world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read but studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...skull, some, sun, stake, straight, subtler, ton, slow, soul. THE NOBLE NATURE. Ben Jonson (1574—1637). IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. LESSONS ON SPECIFIC SUBJECTS. CHEMISTRY. 1. ELEMENTARY AND COMPOUND MATTER. 1. Matter is divided into... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...top. 0 King, begin with thine ! THE NOBLE NATURE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. AMERICAN SAINTS. The canonized saints or beatified servants | of God who lived or labored... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...por-tions hun-dred stand-ing per-fect fair-er It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be , Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. 46.— THE BATTLE OF CRECY. PART I. mar-shal con-sta-ble scoun-drel bat-tal-i-on e-quip-ped... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...applause of those about him. THE NOBLE NATURE. 41. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long', an oak, three hundred...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. f In small proportions we just beauties see ; _ And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...first Well hath obeyed. Milton. THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred...and die that night It was the plant and flower of sight. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 560 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred yenr, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERTJ8. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
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