 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.  Shakspere: His Times and Contemporaries - Page 165by George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...the company of Jonson and other wits in such gatherings as he celebrated in his ode for Ben Jonson— Where we such clusters had As made us nobly wild,...verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic winehe turned readily to the celebration of rustic content in Horatian mood: Here, here I live with... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with you in floods of down. (1. Ill —120) CaPo; JCP; PoEL-3: SeCP; SeCV-1 An Ode for Ben Jonson 36 @d . (1. 7-10) AWP; CaPo; InvP; NoP: OBS; SeCP; SeCV-1; TrGrPo The Pillar of Fame 37 Fame's pillar here,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 424 pages
...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.' * See Note Q. Burbage. CHAPTER XIII Let the proud salmon gorge the feather d hook. Then strike, and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains. 4591 'An Ode for him' [Ben Jonsonl 0506 Tr 4592 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time' Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying:... | |
 | Robert Herrick - Literary Collections - 2003 - 94 pages
...and gold objects was tested, by rubbing against a touchstone. H-911 AN ODE FOR HIM1 Ah Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy guests Meet at those lyric feasts,...thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine. My Ben Or come agen, Or send to us, Thy wit's great over-plus; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it,... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 248 pages
...(1572-1637) by devising a stanza that includes lines of one stress up to pentameter: Ah, Ben! Say how or when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric...of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. We can see that not all of these lines are iambic. For example, 'Meet at those lyric feasts / Made... | |
 | Adam Smyth - Alcoholism in literature - 2004 - 258 pages
...or when Shall we thy Guests Meet at those Lyrick Feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the triple Tunne? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each Verse of thine Out-did the meate, out-did the frolick wine. (lines 1-10) The image of Jonson and his 'sons' being made 'nobly... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...or when Shall we thy Guests Meet at those Lyrick Feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the triple Tunne} Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each Verse of thine Out-did the meade, out-did the frolick wine.5 This opening stanza suggest that "An Ode for Him" will be a simple,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 2007 - 554 pages
...a much better one in worse company. Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson, no doubt, paint the fact: "When we such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad;...of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine." Such friends make the feast satisfying, and I notice, that, it was when things went prosperously, and... | |
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