 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...was form'd, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air ! III. THE STROPHE, OR TURN. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ;4 Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily... | |
 | 1817 - 522 pages
...fire, which make his verses clear :" one stanza is, indeed, conceived in the best manner of Pindar : " It is not growing, like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lilly... | |
 | Education - 1869 - 478 pages
...opened on Tuesday last with appropriate exercises. The library now contains four thousand volumes. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men perfect be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - Children's poetry - 1865 - 342 pages
...though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton XCIV THE GOOD LIFE— LONG LIFE. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an t>ak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...if a turnip-field were to brag over its superiority 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 year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 pages
...terms, without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben 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 year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear; A lily of... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison : — 275 " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To LJ I ! a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ; A lily... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben 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 year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ; A lily... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 428 pages
...particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Deatb of Sir H. Morison : — " It it not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and tear ; A lily... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...knowledge pure it is her worth to know : With Circe let them dwell that think not so. Anon. XL TRUE GROWTH. It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of... | |
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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. 
