 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 dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 314by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1876 - 474 pages
...quoted we would oppose, as far worthier of a gallant spirit, Ben Jonson's admirable conclusions : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measure life may perfect be." our faculties will permit, and to look upon it as the introduction to... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 pages
...world of meaning within briefest compass: " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man betler be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be." As a dramatist Ben Jonson deserves to be read, and not only read, bnt studied, for his wit and humour,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...JON8ON. (1574- '637-I THE NOBLE NATURE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better bo; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year. To fall...beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. SONG OF HESPERUS. QUREN, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...better be, Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. rt C - FROM 1558 то 1625. Epitaph on the Countas of Pembroke. Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 818 pages
...as they do, a world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In hulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak,...: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it full and die that night — It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we jnst beanties... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Or of this, from the "Ode to himself": And since our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself... | |
 | 1927 - 332 pages
...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 pages
...will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred...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 pages
...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 pages
...lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man Each battle sees (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know the Why You liked, then after to apply That liking; and... | |
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