 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...  Fifth Reading Book - Page 308by William T. Vlymen - 1904 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...Jonson's favourite poet Horace. One famous stanza will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then, is the first of many great modern odes in which the styles of the two great classical lyricists,... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - 432 pages
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 Satanic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply That liking; and... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - 180 pages
...poet—prose writer though I am you will have begun to realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make...see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language, English, I believe to have a store of poets, of writers that need not fear comparison... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...syllab'e answer'd, and was form'd, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. THE TURN It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, 70 Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 pages
...syllabe answered, and was formed how fair, These make the lines of life, and that's her air. The Turn 65 It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day 70 Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light.... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...repetitions of the three-stanza sequence, with the labels as Jonson himself printed them: The Turn It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. The Counteriurn Call, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness shine; Accept this... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 pages
...the interior integrity of life as opposed to any worldly or merely physical possession or attainment: It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 and flower of... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall at last, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer...night It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportion we just beauty see; And in short measure, life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson "O rare Ben... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - 318 pages
...these lines for excellence in the conduct of life and in the "measures" of poetry: The Noble Nature It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. (LXXIII) B. Jonson Nothing in the presentation of the poem or in Palgrave's notes tells readers not... | |
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