 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...  The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language - Стр. 64авторы: Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - Страниц: 483Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - Страниц: 260
...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...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 flower of light. In... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - Страниц: 238
...the 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... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 2001 - Страниц: 318
...of the author of these lines for excellence in the conduct of life and in the "measures" of poetry: The Noble Nature It is not growing like a tree In...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 flower of Light.... | |
 | Margaret Carpenter Evans - 2004 - Страниц: 358
...condolence to her Oxford friends Daphne and Robert Levens some years later, she quoted Ben Jonson: It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 flower of light. After... | |
 | Tommy Nelson - 2005 - Страниц: 236
...does every day; you'll be inspired to do your work right. Ben Jonson wrote about this in his poem, "The Noble Nature." It is not growing like a tree...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 flower of Light In... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - Страниц: 272
...happiness condole] commiserate with roll] catalogue like want] a similar lack 16 From Underwoods BEN JONSON It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 flower of light. In... | |
 | Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey - 1931 - Страниц: 352
...that noble pair, Sir Lucius Gary and Sir H. Morison." This first stanza was widely anthologized as "The Noble Nature": It is not growing like a tree...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 flower of Light. In... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - Страниц: 512
...a brawler, who showed himself, in his poetry, to be capable of delicacy and restraint. Oak and Lily It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 flower of light. In... | |
 | 2007 - Страниц: 220
...your sentences so that you create as few substitution sets as possible. It Is Not Growing Lilce a Tree It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...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 flower of light. In... | |
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