 | Mark Lemon - 1867 - 364 Seiten
...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention, heightened, as Jonson sings— " By a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now but shall be mine." As we have endeavoured to confine this division of our subject within the old Walls and so much of... | |
 | Mark Lemon - 1867 - 368 Seiten
...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention, heightened, as Jonson sings — " Hy a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now but shall 1* mine." As we have endeavoured to confine this division of our subject within the old Walls and so... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 598 Seiten
...rejected ' thin potations,' and addicted himself to the rich and luscious Canary, which he tells us — ' Had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted,' is one of the most well-known facts of his history. He has not confessed to an equal devotion to the... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 Seiten
...Mermaid Tavern and its delicious Canary in his delightful poem, "Inviting a Friend to Supper" : — " Bat that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the Mermaitla now, but shall be mine." And again — " Of this we will sup free, but moderately, Nor shall... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 Seiten
...delightful poem, "Inviting a Friend to Supper" : — " But that which most doth take my muse and me, 1s a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine." And again — " Of this we will sup free, but moderately, Nor shall our cups make any guilty men ;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 Seiten
...canary. And it would seem that the Mermaid, in Breadstreet, was the house in which he enjoyed it most : But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a...wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine. Granger states that Charles I. raised Ben's pension from 100 marks to 100 pounds, and added a tierce... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 Seiten
...canary. And it would seem that the Mermaid, in Breadstreet, was the house in which he enjoyed it most : But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a...wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine. Granger states that Charles I. raised Ben's pension from 100 marks to 100 pounds, and added a tierce... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 Seiten
...know of, That will the pastry, not my paper, show of. Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be ; But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a...Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted. Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring, Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing. Of this we will... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 Seiten
...reverence and respect. Jonson tells us himself in his graceful poem " Inviting a Friend to Supper: "— But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a...wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine. But the Canary was to be used, not abused:— Of this we shall sup free, but moderately ; Nor shall... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...muse and me 1 A rabbit. - Learned persons. Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's1 now, but shall be mine ; Of which had Horace or Anacreon...Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted. Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring, Are all but Luther's beer to this I sing.2 Of this we will... | |
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But that which most doth take my muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine : Of which had Horace, or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted. 
