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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... "
Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and ... - Page 159
edited by - 1882
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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...and fade. J. H. NEWMAN. GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. 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...
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Golden Leaves from the British Poets

John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...nothing, yet hath all. Bcn 3onson. THE NOBLE NATURE. TT 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...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...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 that night — It was the plant...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 428 pages
...particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Deatb of Sir H. Morison : — " It it not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better...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 that night ; It was the plant...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...without particular reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison : — 275 " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men...; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To LJ I ! a log at last, dry, bald, and sear ; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Regained, Book IV. LIFE — ITS TKUE ESTIMATE. 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...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. 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...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...shall throw his dart at thee ! THE NOBLE NATURE. 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...
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Wool-gathering

Mary Abigail Dodge - 1867 - 384 pages
...success and population and grainelevators ! " 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, brown, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May. Although it fall and die that night, It...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 pages
...reference to any one. 103. Ben Jonson, Ode on tAe Death of Sir If. A/orison : — " It is not crowing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be , Or standing l.>r To fall a log a >ng an oak, three hundred year, it last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day...
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