 | Lyrical gleanings - 1864 - 152 oldal
...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...that night ; It was the plant and flower of light. ID small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. ARK... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Peterson - 1864 - 908 oldal
...i'.ry bald, nnd sere. A lily of a day is fairer far in Мну, Although ii tall and die that niiint, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we juK beauties pee, But in short measure life may perfect be.— BEX JOÜEOÜ. " Excepting the rose,... | |
 | Life thoughts - 1865 - 196 oldal
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JONSON. Silent Prayer. THREEFOLD are the prayers of man to God, and their efficacy is also ascending... | |
 | Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 342 oldal
...growing like a tree In bulk doth make men better be ; Or standing long an t>ak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere ; A lily...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. xcv SIN Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - 234 oldal
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be, Or standing like an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. THE HOARY HEAD A CROWN OF GLORY. WHILE we call old age the winter of our life, we must beware lest... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 oldal
...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...beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. BEN JON SON. Co tfr l&olp Cunttj'. O HOLY, blessed, glorious Trinity Of Persons, still one God in unity,... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 oldal
...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...proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures liife may perfect be. BEN JON SON. tlje O HOLY, blessed, glorious Trinity Of Persons, still one God... | |
 | 424 oldal
...growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be ; By standing long, an oak three hundred years, To fall a log at last, dry bald and sere ; A lily...light. In small proportions, we just beauties see, Arid in short measures, life may perfect be. FOR LONDON BIBLE AND DOMESTIC FEMALE MISSIONS. Money received... | |
 | A. M. G. B. - 1865 - 138 oldal
...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. Altho' it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 oldal
...Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ibid. In small proportion we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. Good Life, Long Life. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die ; Which in life did... | |
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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 small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. 
