 Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth,...  New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine - Page 2161896Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Julia Mary Cartwright Ady, Julia Cartwright - 1893 - 340 pages
...still standing in the last century, was an object of reverence. Already Ben Jonson had sung its fame. " That taller tree which of a nut was set At his great birth where all the Muses met." And ere long that other poet, who sang of Sacharissa's charms, was to give it a place in his verse.... | |
 | Henry Winthrop Sargent - 1896 - 124 pages
...In the park is the oak planted at his birth, to which Ben Jonson alludes as " That tall tree, too, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met." Penshurst, like Knolle, was of importance before the Conquest ; and, after being in possession of several... | |
 | Pelton, Richard, publisher - 1896 - 344 pages
...points is still very picturesque, though the visitor may look in vain for the "Taller tree of which a nut was set At his great birth where all the Muses met." "The sacred mark Of noble Sidney's birth." 177 circumference, known as the Penshurst Oak, or the Bear's... | |
 | Alfred Henry Malan - 1899 - 432 pages
...once been the property of the peerless "Sacharissa" herself. SUNDIAL IN THE GARDEN, PENSHURST 325 326 Out of doors we are again reminded of this fair lady...are entirely in keeping with the character of the house.1 And when the apple trees are in bloom, and the limes bursting into leaf, there is no fairer... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1901 - 324 pages
...Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech, and the chesnut shade ; That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Muses met. There, in the writhed bark, are cut the names Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames, And thence the... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 pages
...Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade ; a! There, in the writhed bark, are cut the names Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames. And thence the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...Where l'an and Hacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade ; ed he the cumpany of women ; and so past the tyme till There, in the writhed bark, are cut the names Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames. And thence the... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1909 - 666 pages
...Northumberland. A tree still standing in Penshurst Park is identified with one which, according to Ben Jonson, Of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Muses met. His godfathers were Philip II of Spain, Queen Mary's husband, after whom he was named, and John Russell,... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1910 - 382 pages
...manor. Rare Ben Jonson indicates that it was a nut-bearing sapling : That taller tree of which the nut was set At his great birth, where all the muses met. We have heard the history of the giant chestnut thus honoured, and that it was uprooted by the windy... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1913 - 206 pages
...Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade ; That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Pluses met. There, in the writhed bark, are cut the names Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames :... | |
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