 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...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 588edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson - 1640 - 190 pages
...a Day, Is fairer farre, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the Plant, and flowre of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect bee. The Counter-turne. Call, noble Lucius, then for Wine, And let thy lookes with gladnesse shine... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...fairer farre, in May, Althoagh ii fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flowre of light. ID small proportions we just beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be. '.ill, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy lookes with gladnesse shine: Accept this garland, plant... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...better be ;4 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. * It is not growing like a tree, &c.] " The qaalities of rind perception and happy expression" (it... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pages
...a day Is fairer farre in May, Although it fall and die that night; — It was the plant and flowre of light. In small proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect bee." &c. " The following is part of lord Level's discourse, when impleaded before his mistress, in... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...far-re in May, Although it fall and die that night; — It was the plant and flowre of light. In tmall proportions we just beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect bee." &c. " The following is part of lord Level's discourse, when impleaded before his mistress, in... | |
 | 1817 - 522 pages
...lilly of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and Jloiaer of light : In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.'' It has been long considered as an infallible mark of good taste to carp at Ben Jonson's translations.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...to curse the wine, when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess.— Erasmus. In such proportions we just beauties see: And in short measures life may perfect be. Ode to the Memory of a Youth,—Ben Jonson, DCCCLXVIII. Mr. Hobbes was used to say,—that a man was... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...; Thou entertaining in thy breast But such a mind, makest God thy guest. THE GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. SIR HENRY WOTTON. THIS elegant writer was born in Kent, in 1568. He enjoyed several public offices... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 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...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. And I would appeal for the truth of this to myself, and to my noble Lucins near me, one grown old to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...Is fairer, far, in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light I In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be." Mrs. Gray's remains were deposited in the vaults of St. Paul's church, Cork. No monumental stone has... | |
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