 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...  Chapters from Aristotle's Ethics - Stranica 49napisao/la John Henry Muirhead - 1900 - Broj stranica: 319Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - Broj stranica: 828
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - Broj stranica: 274
...empires aught 10 Within those empty hands unto the grave had brought.] THE GOOD LIFE A LONG LIFE. 10 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, | doth make...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... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - Broj stranica: 306
...flow, From the sky at silent even For the morning's glorious show. HUMAN PEKFECTION. IB ra % nnsraIT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sore. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - Broj stranica: 838
...dimness we can faintly discern that life has other kinds of completeness besides length of days : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo ; Or standing long on oak, three hundred year, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant... | |
 | John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - Broj stranica: 294
...were fulfilled, "In sorrow shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life." CHAPTER XXXV. LONG LIFE. " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - Broj stranica: 356
...of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir ff. Wotlon THE NOBLE NATURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...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... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - Broj stranica: 438
...though not of lands ; And, having nothing, yet hath all. WOTTON. |n 8^ori nuasurw %'ilt mag pufetl be. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer... | |
 | Charles Stanford - 1861 - Broj stranica: 430
...JACET DOMINVS JOSEPHVS ALLEINE HOLOCAVSTVM TAVNTONENSIS ET DEO ET VOBIS. An old poet has said : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - Broj stranica: 246
...song ; How long those blissful days be thine, Oh, land of peace and rest — how long P Griffin. LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...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... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - Broj stranica: 372
...boy to man, from man to boy, would chop and change degree. Earl of Surrey CLXXII THE NOBLE NA TURE It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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... | |
| |
