 | 1874 - 820 Seiten
...make the steps all shine, Scour downward from the top. 0 King, begin with thine ! 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... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 Seiten
...wait. John Milton. 45.— THE NOBLE NATURE. grow-ing pro por-tions hun-dred stand-ing per-fect fair-er 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 Seiten
...-Who best Can suffer, best can do ; best reign, who first Well hath obeyed. Milton. 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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...approbation, and the fool when he recommends himself to the applause of those about him. THE NOBLE NATURE. 41. 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1875 - 168 Seiten
...and shining youth Age might but take the things Youth needed not ! W. Wordsworth * 67 * TRUE GROWTH 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... | |
 | Johann Christian Ferdinand Hoefer - 1875 - 476 Seiten
...whiteness ") are mostly very handsome. Ben Jonson, speaking of the ordinary lily, says, very finely — " 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 sear : A lily... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...wore, And the strong, mighty roots the giant trunks upbore. SARAH S. JACOBS : The Changeless Worbd. 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 sear. A lily... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 Seiten
...shall ever be, I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee. BEN JOXSON. [1574- '637-l THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Ix-tter lie; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere... | |
 | 1876 - 1000 Seiten
...patience. People who have always been prosperous are seldom the most worthy, and never the most strong. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. Or standing like an oak, three hundred rear. To Rill a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A Illy... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...whiteness ") are mostly very handsome. Ben Jonson, speaking of the ordinary lily, says, very finely — " 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 sear : A lily... | |
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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... 
