Ah Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine. The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 157von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 Seiten
...that in his convivial meetings there was not something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben ! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feaste, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tim? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 Seiten
...something higher and better than sensual indulgence : — "Ah, Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy guesta Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun 1 Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad ; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...trnnslunary scenes' of the poets inspired the muse of Herríck in the following •train:— AhBen! and intellectual acuteness, though tainted with the...here extracted : — [ What Education. Embraces.} 1 And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. My Ben ! Or come again, Or send... | |
| George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 Seiten
...meetings long lingered in his brain, as the following stanzas of his will prove : — " Ah, Ben ! Say now or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts...thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. " My Den I Or come again, Or send to us Thy wit's great overplus. But teach us yet, Wisely to husband it;... | |
| Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 Seiten
...see, To the number five, Or nine ; but thrive In frenzy ne'er lifee thee. CCLXIX. ODE FOR THE SAME. Ah, Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet...such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad f My Bon! Or come again, Or send to us, Thy wit's great overplus : But teach us yet Wisely to husband... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 664 Seiten
...bard of " Those lyric feasts, Where men such clusters had, As made them nobly wild, not mad , While yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." CHAPTER XIII. Let the proud salmon gorge the featber'd hook, Then strike, and then you have him—... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 Seiten
...rapturously he invokes the great "Ben" to " Meet at those lyrick feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, tha Triple Tun, Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad." These poets have left a Bacchanalian odour behind them. But there is a smack of tipsy jollity in every... | |
| Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - 1855 - 406 Seiten
...commences — " Ah Ben ! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at these lyric feasts Made at the Sun+, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad ! And yet such verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." Ben's means of subsistence were, according... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 Seiten
...long lease of life, and he had seen the Revolution of '88. In his young days were being celebrated those "lyric feasts made at the Sun, the Dog, the Triple Tun," whereat the Herricks, Fletchers, Jonsons quaffed the mighty bowl, charged with such clusters " as made... | |
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