 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 Literary World - Seite 311881Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 340 Seiten
...population and grainelevators ! " 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, .brown, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die that night,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 Seiten
...without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison : — 275 " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To LJ I ! a log at last, dry, bald, and sear... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 Seiten
...terms, without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison: — "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;... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 Seiten
...without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben 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... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 Seiten
...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 that night,— It was the plant... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 Seiten
...Beaumont and Fletcher. THE NOBLE NATURE. 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... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 Seiten
...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 that night, It was... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...knowledge pure it is her worth to know : With Circe let them 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.... | |
 | 1869 - 568 Seiten
...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 far in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - 1869 - 112 Seiten
...contemptuous, or opposing world around by a varied 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.... | |
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