 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 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...the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As the years go on, there gathers... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 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...that night ; | It was the plant and flower of light. j In small proportions we just beauties see, | And in short measures life may perfect be. | 3. How... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sore. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flow'r of light ; In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 pages
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — 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. A s the years go on, there gathers... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - 294 pages
...thy life." CHAPTER XXXV. LONG LIFE. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year To fall...the plant and flower of light; In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." B. THE long lives of men in the early... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...%'ilt mag pufetl be. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...the plant and flower of Light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. JONSON. (Eboealion % butg of %... | |
 | 1861 - 228 pages
...head from the top to the bottom? GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. EXTRACT FROM AN ODE PINDARIC. AUTHOR BORN 1754. A LILY of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...the plant and flower of light ! In small proportions we just beauties see ; THE CHILD'S REVERIE. The idea, of the following lines was really expressed by... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 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...the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD When God... | |
 | 1861 - 236 pages
...the top to the bottom ? GOOD LIFE, LONG LITE. EXTBACT FROM AN ODE PlNDARIO. AUTHOR BORN 1764. A LILT of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it fall and...plant and flower of light ! In small proportions. we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. 168 PICTURES AND FLOTVEBS. THE CHILD'S... | |
 | Charles Stanford - 1861 - 430 pages
...poet has said : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...the plant and flower of light ; In small proportions we just beauties see, And in small measures life may perfeft be."* * Ben Jonson. This is true ; but... | |
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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. 
