 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
 | Amy Cruse - 1913 - 156 pages
...stands shaded by stately trees, ' ' the broad beech and the chestnut, and that taller tree of which a nut was set at his great birth, where all the muses met." It has ' ' orchard fruit ' ' and ' ' garden flowers, ' ' " Fresh as the air, and new as are the hours."... | |
 | Malcolm William Wallace - 1915 - 454 pages
...stand'st an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while." Jonson also refers to " That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth where all the muses met " — in allusion to " Sir Philip Sidney's Oak," the tree which had been planted to commemorate his... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 pages
...Jonson's "To Penshurst," Sidney appears rather obliquely as a guarantor of the quality of the woodlands— That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Muses met. 81 It is perhaps surprising that he has no larger role; perhaps he has to remain significantly on the... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 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 Muses met. There, in the writhed bark, are cut the names Of many a sylvan taken with his flames; And thence the... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 2002 - 284 pages
...Penshurst" and "The Description of Cooke-ham." In "To Penshurst" Jonson evokes trees: Philip's Oak, "That taller tree, which of a nut was set, / At his great birth, where all the muses met," "thy lady's oak," under which Barbara Gammage is said to have gone into labor, producing a new Sidney,... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - 1998 - 180 pages
...famous amateur, Sir Philip Sidney: he is mentioned only by way of a catalogue of trees in the park — "That taller tree, which of a nut was set, / At his great birth, where all the Muses met."7 Jonson cannot be the Sidneys because he wants to be paid by them. For while Horace is seen,... | |
 | Susanne Woods - 1999 - 236 pages
...most famous Sidney of all, Sir Philip (1554-86), and used to blazon the names of beloved mistresses: That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Muses met. There, in the writhed barke, are cut the names Of many a Sylvane, taken with his flames. (11. 13-16)... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 pages
...Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made. Beneath the broad beeeh and the chestnut 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... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 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 Muses met. (10-14) And thence, the ruddy Satyrs oft provoke The lighter Fauns to reach thy Lady's Oak. (17-18)... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 382 pages
...Jonson's "To Penshurst," Sidney appears rather obliquely as a guarantor of the quality of the woodlands— That taller tree, which of a nut was set, At his great birth, where all the Muses met.81 It is perhaps surprising that he has no larger role; perhaps he has to remain significantly... | |
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