 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 Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song - Seite 310von Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 882 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 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...that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. f In small proportions we just beauties see ; _ And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON.... | |
 | 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...and die that night It was the plant and flower of sight. In small proportions we just beauty see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson.... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred yenr, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERTJ8. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 Seiten
...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...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just l>eauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUEEN, and huntress, chaste... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...better be, Or 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...beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON : Good Life, Long Lip. Those green-robed senators of mighty woods. Tall oaks, branch-charmed... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 Seiten
...unnatural analogies." p. xi. For the proof of this we are referred to the present ode, which, with the A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. THE ANTISTROPHE, OR COUNTER-TURN. | ALL, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness... | |
 | 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...log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day . 5 Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — .... It was the plant and flower... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 Seiten
...world of meaning within briefest compass: " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man betler be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read, bnt studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 Seiten
...JON8ON. (1574- '637-I THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year. To fall...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUREN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 Seiten
...spirit, Ben Jonson's admirable conclusions : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be." our faculties will permit, and to look upon it as the introduction to... | |
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