 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...sweet is she I то 1649. Good Life, Long Life. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth iiüikr nigh(d full a log at last, dry, bald, and eear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...have tasted the bag of the bee I 0 so white ! 0 so soft ! 0 »o sweet i* ahe I Good Life, Long Life. full a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...The cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light, to warm And beautify the flower ? * EARLY RIPE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, * Anonymous,... | |
 | 1879 - 474 pages
...days and years merely, but in pure thoughts, and Christ-like activities. Old Ben Johnson sings : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...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... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...develop when they shall bow to the sceptre, and imbibe the pacific spirit, of the Prince of Peace ! IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 night, It was the plant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...of the House of Commons, and of the many great bulky men you find there. But, as tien Jonson says, . . . . " To-day I dine with Mackintosh and Airs. Stale — (as And when Lord John Russell speaks, yon soon find that in him, as in all of us, " the mind's the measure... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter - 1855 - 342 pages
...beneath, Soul to its home on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die. It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1856 - 540 pages
...— " And she, dear thing ! ain't long for this world; but she's ready for a better." CHAPTEE XXXI. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last a log, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May BEN JONSON. " WHAT haa become... | |
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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. 
