 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...  Golden Leaves from the British Poets - Stran 19avtor: John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 546 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1927 - 332 strani
...like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." THE JUBILEE YEAR. By AJ MACSELF, Reading. The modern school of journalism would probably insist that... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 strani
...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...see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then, is the first of many great modern odes in which the styles of the two great classical lyricists,... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1991 - 432 strani
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be; Or standing long an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere; A lily...beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.9 Why? Because the lily of a day in the words of Keats is a thing of beauty and is a joy for ever... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 It anic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply That liking; and... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - 1993 - 180 strani
...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 man...see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language, English, I believe to have a store of poets, of writers that need not fear comparison... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...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 strani
...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 better...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 strani
...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 better...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. The Counteriurn Call, noble Lucius, then for wine, And let thy looks with gladness shine; Accept this... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 strani
...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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 strani
...like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred years, To fall at last, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer...night It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportion we just beauty see; And in short measure, life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson "O rare Ben... | |
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