 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 Children's Garland: From the Best Poets - Page 340edited by - 1862 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...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...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures, life may perfect be. This, then, is the first of many great modern... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 Satanic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. (1. 65—74) 42 This made you first to know... | |
 | Tore Fr ngsmyr, Sture All n - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 180 pages
...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...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures, life may perfect be." My own language, English, I believe to have... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 - Authors and readers - 1996 - 500 pages
...syllabe 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...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 - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...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...and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. The Counteriurn Call, noble Lucius, then for... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...were parted thence. Still left an echo in the sense. 5248 To ... Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' gular brute of a bee!' 5249 Every Man in His Humour I do honour the very flea of his dog. 5250 Every Man out of His Humour... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...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... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 318 pages
...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 bulk, doth make Man...and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. (LXXIII) B. Jonson Nothing in the presentation... | |
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