 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
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - Broj stranica: 574
...of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. Bcn 3onson. THE NOBLE NATURE. TT 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... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - Broj stranica: 506
...flower which never fades. CCVIII. THE NOBLE NATURE. ' *? p fj^l';'. T is not growing like a tree gj 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... | |
 | William Martin - 1866 - Broj stranica: 426
...good, praise for his everlasting mercies to the children of men. Good life is not merely long life ; It is not growing like a tree In bulk, — doth make man better be ; Or standing as an oake three hundred yeare, To fall a logge at last — dry, bald, and scare. z A lillie of a day,... | |
 | Maine O'Hara - 1866 - Broj stranica: 346
...Letty, my dear. Allow me just to remind you of what old Ben Jonson says of ' The noble nature ' : — ' It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ' " " I'll engage the same Ben Jonson was a little man himself, Miss Crosby. Well, I suppose you and... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - Broj stranica: 558
...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 a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - Broj stranica: 404
...and the sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. Paradise Regained, Book IV. LIFE — ITS TKUE ESTIMATE. IT is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...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... | |
 | Gail Hamilton - 1867 - Broj stranica: 350
...poverty and failure and calmness and silence. Away with success and population and grainelevators ! " It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall, a log, at last, brown, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - Broj stranica: 332
...slain another, Fair, and wise, and good as she, Time shall throw his dart at thee ! 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - Broj stranica: 332
...slain another, Fair, and wise, and good as she, Time shall throw his dart at thee ! 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - Broj stranica: 428
...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 of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die... | |
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