 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and scar ^ s without hands or eyes, smelling sans all, Or but...thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein l finde... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 Seiten
...shore. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. TT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long, an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. I WILL ARISE. A 1 7"HO, toiling on the weary round of life, * * But feels sometimes, —... | |
 | 1872 - 710 Seiten
...earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco In bulk, doth make men . (. u(. Ben Jonson. 1637. GUIDANCE, Christ's. Jesus, still lead on, Till our rest be won ; And although the... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1872 - 168 Seiten
...\Exeunt. THE GOOD LIFE—LONG LlFE.-£en Jonson IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. Sir FH Doyle. Supposed to be narrated by a soldier who s^lrv^ved. (The... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 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. True, indeed, it is that — Youth is not rich in time : it may be, poor. Part with it,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 Seiten
...art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. —BEN JONSON (1573— 1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. 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 Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night ; It was the plant... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 Seiten
...Our life, our state, our stay, and vital breath, Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. LOVE. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of soc1ety, the spirit... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 Seiten
...lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т is not growing like a tree ' In bulk, doth make man...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Joiison. flobember tit. NOVEMBER. DARK on the earth November lies ; Cloud, fog, and storm o'ergloom... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 Seiten
...APRIL, 1877. VOL. III. DIVERS TRUTHS WITH VARIED APPLICATIONS. I. They live long who live well, It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night : It was the plant and flower of light. In... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 Seiten
...be ; Or standing long an pak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ;, Л GOD'S-ACRE. I LIKE that ancient Saxon phrase which calls The burial-ground God's- iij short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. MY MINDE TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY minde to me a kingdom... | |
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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 sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower... 
