 | William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 páginas
...three hundred yeare, To fall a logge at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lilie of a day, Is fairer farre, in May, Although it fall, and die that night, It was the plant and flowre of light! In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...Thou entertaining in thy breast But such a mind, makest Ood thy guest. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THOMAS CAREW. THIS poet was born about 1577.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...tasted the bag of the bee I 0 so white ! 0 so soft ! 0 »o sweet i* ahe I Good Life, Long Life. It is old tenant full a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 páginas
...cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light, to warm And beautify the flower ? * EARLY RIPE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, * Anonymous,... | |
 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...thee power to be, and use the same. BEN JONSON. BORX, 1574; DIED, 1637. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, Ami in short measures life may perfect be. HYMN TO GOD THE FATHER. HEAR me, O God ! A... | |
 | 1879 - 474 páginas
...and years merely, but in pure thoughts, and Christ-like activities. Old Ben Johnson sings : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...May ; Although it fall and die that night. It was a plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties sec, And in short measures life... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and tear. A lily of a day IB fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light ! In email proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. Epitaph on the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...three hundred yeare, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and seare. A lillie of a day, Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In such proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures fife may perfect be. Ben Jonson. O she... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 páginas
...develop when they shall bow to the sceptre, and imbibe the pacific spirit, of the Prince of Peace ! IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day la fairer far in May ; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...the House of Commons, and of the many great bulky men you find there. But, as tien Jonson says, It : "There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified As a And when Lord John Russell speaks, yon soon find that in him, as in all of us, " the mind's the measure... | |
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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. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be. 
