 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred...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 and spring... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...Mrs. Ifcinans. Г ©ctober THE NOBLE NATURE. ' Т is not growing like a tree ' In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...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... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 262 pages
...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." FRANCIS BEAUMONT (b. 1586, d. 1615), and JOHN FLETCHER (6. 1576, d. 1625). — These were two clever... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...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. The Forest. AN EPITAPH. HEBE lies, to each her parents' ruth, Mary, the daughter of their youth : Yet... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877 - 452 pages
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day IE fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night...beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. Religion emphasizes little things. It does not confound bigness with greatness, nor identify the smallness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 870 pages
...containing, as they do, a world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read but studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...subtler, ton, slow, soul. THE NOBLE NATURE. Ben Jonson (1574—1637). IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. LESSONS ON SPECIFIC SUBJECTS. CHEMISTRY. 1. ELEMENTARY AND COMPOUND MATTER. 1. Matter is divided into... | |
 | 1874 - 820 pages
...top. 0 King, begin with thine ! THE NOBLE NATURE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. AMERICAN SAINTS. The canonized saints or beatified servants | of God who lived or labored in America,... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...por-tions hun-dred stand-ing per-fect fair-er It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be , Or standing long an oak, three hundred...in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Jonson. 46.— THE BATTLE OF CRECY. PART I. mar-shal con-sta-ble scoun-drel bat-tal-i-on e-quip-ped ves-pers... | |
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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... 
