 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
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 páginas
...some others into the path by which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like e, 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... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 páginas
...verse distils your truth. BEN JONSON. LIVED 1574 TO 1637. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, that doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bold, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die... | |
 | 1868 - 450 páginas
...outlived many friends, and laden, as I am, with sin, have been granted years, not of life, but disease — It is not growing like a tree In bulk — doth make man bettor be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a los; at least, dry, bald, and Bear... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 páginas
...dwell that think not so. Anon. XL 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 a day 5 Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 páginas
...art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. — BEN JONSON (1573 — 1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. 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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | 1869 - 606 páginas
...well, but they ffamrot last, for they are only shoddy — slioddy. " It is not growing like a trefl " In bulk, doth make man 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... | |
 | 1869 - 568 páginas
...will find all the blessings for which you crave, and many to which you have not dared to aspire. " It is not growing like a tree, In bulk doth make man better be ; Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of the day Is fairer... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - 1869 - 112 páginas
...evangelistic agency? As the old poet says — " 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 a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! THE NOBLE NATURE. TT 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 foil and die... | |
 | 1870 - 462 páginas
...them dwell that think not so. XLI 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 a day 5 Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
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