 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wro 1 And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. My Ben I Or come again, . Or... | |
 | 1894 - 668 pages
...rare " Ben Jonson, and to which he has alluded, and to the faded roses which once had bloomed :— Ab, Ben ! Say how or when, Shall we thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the aun, The Dog, the triple Tun. JOHN PlCKFûRD, MA Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1852 - 744 pages
...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 at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun. The Dog, the triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1857 - 232 pages
...tavern-haunts of canary -bibbing Ben. Here is an ode to him, which is at once lyrical and Herrickal : "Ah! Ben, Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at...lyrick 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 Outdid... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pages
...Herrick, in after years, recalling the glorious evenings at the Mermaid, as he addresses Ben thus : "Ah, Ben! Say how or when Shall we. thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog. the Triple Tun ; WJiere we such clusters had, As made us nobly... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 604 pages
...revels and luxuriates in his ' Welcome to Sack !' How rapturously he invokes the great ' Ben ' to ' Meet at those lyrick feasts Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun, Where we such clusters had As made us nohly wild, not mad.' These poets have left a Bacchanalian... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...a clergyman, and had become 24 a boon companion of Ben Jonson. Hence his well-known lines— •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... | |
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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 Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. 
