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" 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... "
Chapters from Aristotle's Ethics - Página 47
por John Henry Muirhead - 1900 - 319 páginas
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The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful ...

William Oldys - 1740 - 348 páginas
...Each fyllable anfwer'd, and was form'd ; how fair Thefe make the lines of life, and that's her air. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or ftanding long an oak, three hundred year To fall a log, at la!! , dry, old, and fear : A lily of a...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen234

1921 - 432 páginas
...domain of action, or of making. Man makes himself, and his institutions, for better or for worse : ' It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be.' When we speak of growth, in this sphere, we are using a metaphor or simile. The institution of which...
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The British review and London critical journal

1817 - 522 páginas
...indeed, conceived in the best manner of Pindar : " 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 lilly of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volumen1

Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 páginas
...mother's arms were longing for her absent son. Although he was young in years, he was rich in good works. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the flower and...
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Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volumen1

Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 páginas
...mother's arms were longing for her absent son. Although he was young in years, he was rich in good works. It is not growing, like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the flower and...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...; Thou entertaining in thy breast But such a mind, makest God thy guest. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...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...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumen11

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 páginas
...mere duration is, after all, no true standard for judging ; and Ben Jonson well reminds us : — " 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...
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The Illuminated Magazine, Volumen2

William James Linton - 1844 - 340 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...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...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volúmenes6-7

Anna Maria Hall - 818 páginas
...(I know them well), that in the fulness of a father's grief for his ' early ripe,' he wrote, — ' It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make man better he ; Or standing long, nn oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : —...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volúmenes32-33

1878 - 300 páginas
...those who climb are heroes less, Though I must walk in night. — Spectator. THE GOOD LITE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...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...
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