 | 1884 - 376 หน้า
...in days and years merely, but in pure thoughts, and noble activities. Old Ben Jonson 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 see, And in short measures life... | |
 | Joseph H. Head - 1884 - 498 หน้า
...constant, Upward like thee ! JJ. Jonson. T is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man hotter be ; Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauty see; And in short measures life may perfect be. jlnna Letitia Ijarbatdd. IFE! we've been long... | |
 | 1885 - 552 หน้า
...I will relate only one thing yet, belonging to this twilight time. (To be continued.) TRUE GROWTH. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. — B. Jonson. THE OBSERVER. FORESTS AND FLOODS. The following is a synopsis of an address delivered... | |
 | C. E. Alexander - 1886 - 346 หน้า
...all. Sir Henry Wotton THE GOOD LIFE — LONG LIFE 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. Ben Jonson xcv sat T ORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! J — t Parents first season us... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 476 หน้า
...waits for a revival. " It is not to be like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." XXIV. THE HEAVENS AND HELLS OF THE PRESENT LIFE. XXIV. THE HEAVENS AND HELLS OF THE PRESENT LIFE. "If... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 514 หน้า
...waits for a revival. " It is not to be like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." XXIV. THE HEAVENS AND HELLS OF THE PRESENT LIFE. XXIV. THE HEAVENS AND HELLS OF THE PRESENT LIFE. "... | |
 | Vallabhadeva - 1886 - 898 หน้า
...JT^J. Compare No. 597. 588. Given by Bohtlingk from the Subhashitiirnava. 589. у. С яг 593. if " It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make Man...Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that nightIt \vas the plant and flower of Light. 22 KOTES. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And... | |
 | 1886 - 552 หน้า
...smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THE NOBLE NATURE. fT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that nightIt was the plant and flower of Light. In pmall proportions we just beauties see; And in short... | |
 | 1887 - 168 หน้า
...day and night — Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. COLEKIDGE (Complaint, and Reproof J. 44 IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. 7* 45 A 'WEARIED pilgrim I have wandered here JT\. Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one... | |
 | 1914 - 970 หน้า
...corridors of Time." One of the very first, why he could not tell, was Ben Jonson's very familiar stanza: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be." It is but one stanza in a poem of many stanzas not otherwise memorable. But as the convalescent repeated... | |
| |
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... 
