 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 604 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson SIN T ORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! .L ? Parents first season us : then... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...to a rose of Provence. What says Ben Jonson ? ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...that night : It was the plant and flower of light.' Coleridge did nothing, forsooth ! as Mr. Gladstone might say. Why, he wrote Christabcl; but for which... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. ON HIS BEING ARRIVED TOTHE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. HYMN TO DIANA. T~\RINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...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...that night ; It was the plant and flower of light." 105. The babble of childhood ; pappo for pane, bread, and dindi for danari, money. Halliwell, Die.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 pages
...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...that night; It was the plant and flower of light." 105. The babble of childhood; pappo for pane, bread, and dindi for danari, money. Halliwell, Die. of... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. ' ' ' BBN JONSON. '. i TIME steals away like to a stream, And we glide hence away with him ; No sound... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. "PHILASTER." Act i., Scene 2. Philaster. I have a boy : Sent by the gods, I... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 pages
...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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Johnson. THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL. It draws the grossness off the understanding, , And renders... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." The title given to this volume was selected because it was regarded as exceedingly expressive of the... | |
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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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower... 
