 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 pages
...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...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ibid. SO NG — TO C ELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - 1869 - 112 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. " Apply these words to the life of a church — of this church. Not the size of a church, not its length... | |
 | 1869 - 606 pages
...well, but they ffamrot last, for they are only shoddy — slioddy. " It is not growing like a trefl " In bulk, doth make man better be, " Or standing long...day " Is fairer far in May ; " Although it fall and dio that night, " It was the plant and flower of light ! " In small proportions we just beauties see... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 468 pages
...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...that night ; It was the plant and flower of light." Halliwell, Die. of Arch, and Prov. Words: " BINDERS, small ceins of the Lower Empire, found at Wroxeter."... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 432 pages
...Ode on tbe Death of Sir H. Morison : — 275 " It is pot growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...that night ; It was the plant and flower of light." 105. The babble of childhood ; faff a for fane, bread, and dindi for danari, money. Halliwell, Die.... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 180 pages
...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...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. It may. At the same time the short-lived ' flower of light,' with all its dainty beauty and subtle... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...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... | |
 | Edis Searle - 1871 - 390 pages
...better be ; Or standing like 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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. " SHE seemed really sorry about it. Well, it is strange. I should never have thought she... | |
 | simpkim marshall & co - 1871 - 460 pages
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." Edmund Waller says truly— " Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired." But in another... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 268 pages
...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...beauties see : And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ibid. SONG — TO CELI A. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave... | |
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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 sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower... 
