 | Gail Hamilton, Mary Abigail Dodge - Minnesota - 1867 - 350 pages
...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...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 that night, It... | |
 | British dramatists - Quotations, English - 1868 - 138 pages
...so much of this wet weakness To drown a glorious death in child and woman ? Beaumont and Fletcher. THE NOBLE NATURE. It is not growing like a tree In...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. Ben Johnson. THE ADVANTAGES OF TRAVEL. It draws the grossness off the understanding, , And renders... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 pages
...some others into the path by which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like e, tree, In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." The title given to this volume was selected because it was regarded as exceedingly expressive of the... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bold, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May ; Although it...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. "PHILASTER." Act i., Scene 2. Philaster. I have a boy : Sent by the gods, I... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan minister.) - 1868 - 188 pages
...and to assist in leading some others into the path by which they too may reach the heavenly city. " It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make...log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day la fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, — It was the plant and flower of light.... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day 5 Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. 10 Ben Jonsan. XLI THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance,... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 444 pages
...himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir H. Wotton I LXXIII THE NOBLE NATURE is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. jfonson LXXIV THE GIFTS OF GOD WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings standing by... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 pages
...though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. Sir H. Wotton LXXIII THE NOBLE NATURE I ~ T is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. LXXIV B. Jonson THE GIFTS OF GOD WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings standing by;... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - Congregational churches - 1869 - 112 pages
...evangelistic agency? As the old poet says — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...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... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1869 - 568 pages
...standing like an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." — Ben Jonton. of Boohs. Life of Jesus for the Young. By Benjamin Clarke. H. Hall, 56, Old Bailey.... | |
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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 sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and... 
