 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...  A manual of expressive reading - Side 52av John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 308 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 sider
...have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white ! O so soft ! O so sweet is she ! THE NOBLE NATURE. TT Is not growing like a tree -*- In bulk, doth make...A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it foil and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 sider
...she'll procure Some way of entrance) we must plant a guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Or of this, from... | |
 | 1927 - 332 sider
...care and if their blossoms were everlasting. Let us remember what wise old Ben Jonson tells us : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 sider
...Jonson's favourite poet Horace. One famous stanza will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...syllab'e answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) rk Satanic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. (1. 65—74)... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - 180 sider
...poet—prose writer though I am you will have begun to realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make...that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sider
...syllab'e answer'd, and was form'd, how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. THE TURN It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, 70 Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions... | |
 | Ernst A. Schmidt - 1996 - 500 sider
...syllabe answered, and was formed how fair, These make the lines of life, and that's her air. The Turn 65 It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day 70 Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light.... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 sider
...repetitions of the three-stanza sequence, with the labels as Jonson himself printed them: The Turn It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. The Counteriurn... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 sider
...the interior integrity of life as opposed to any worldly or merely physical possession or attainment: It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of the day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of... | |
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