 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...  The Hills of the Shatemuc - Página 345de Susan Warner - 1856 - 516 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Maine O'Hara - 1866 - 346 páginas
...Letty, my dear. Allow me just to remind you of what old Ben Jonson says of ' The noble nature ' : — ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ' " " I'll engage the same Ben Jonson was a little man himself, Miss Crosby. Well, I suppose you and... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 páginas
...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 a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 350 páginas
...poverty and failure and calmness and silence. Away with success and population and grainelevators ! " It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall, a log, at last, brown, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...slain another, Fair, and wise, and good as she, Time shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 páginas
...slain another, Fair, and wise, and good as she, Time shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. Paradise Regained, Book IV. LIFE — ITS TKUE ESTIMATE. IT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 páginas
...Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. A/orison : — " 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 a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 428 páginas
...Jonson, Ode on the Deatb of Sir H. Morison : — " It it 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 tear ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 páginas
...and to assist in leading some others into the path by which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...standing long, an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day la fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 páginas
...wet weakness To drown a glorious death in child and woman ? Beaumont and Fletcher. THE NOBLE NATURE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
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