 | 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... | |
 | 1879 - 474 páginas
...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 a plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties sec, And in short measures life... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 448 páginas
...lilie of a day Is fairer far 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 measure life may perfect be." Dryden has called his last plays his dotages, and the sarcasm is perhaps... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 páginas
...standing long, an oak, three 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...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON (1616). PASSAGES FROM THE JOURNALS OF AN OLD TRAVELLER. LANDWARD WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE,... | |
 | 1885 - 358 páginas
...conducting our actions and our life as to embody in practice that which we have realised in conception. " In small proportions we just beauties see ; and in short measures life may perfect be." §HE DAILY SUPPLY OF FISH to Billingsgate Market, according to Mr. EL Beckwith, Prime Warden of the... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 páginas
...better bo, Or standing like 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...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be. THE DESERTED HOUSE. Tennyson, Life and thought have gone away, Side by... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 páginas
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. JONSON. are not ©eat, tfjeg too but SHeey. T EFT in her little room alone, *-* The Euler's child lay... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 páginas
...three hundred yeare, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, ana scare A lillic of a day, Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night : — It was the plant and flower of light. In snch proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. Ode to the Memory... | |
 | 1856 - 372 páginas
...three hundred yeare, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, ana 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 snch proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. Ode to the Memory... | |
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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. 
