 Hail, happy genius of this ancient pile! How comes it all things so about thee smile? The fire, the wine, the men! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst!  The Book of Table-talk - Page 85by Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
 | George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 1910 - 272 pages
...composed by Jonson has already been cited; but it may, in this connexion, be quoted in full : — " Hail, happy Genius of this ancient pile ! How comes...so about thee smile ? The fire, the wine, the men ! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst ! Pardon, I read it in thy face, the... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1913 - 206 pages
...record, in this blest child. And till the coming of the soul To fetch the flesh, we keep the roll. ON LORD BACON'S BIRTHDAY Hail, happy Genius of this ancient...so about thee smile ? The fire, the wine, the men ! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst ! Pardon, I read it in thy face, the... | |
 | Alice Chambers Bunten - 1919 - 98 pages
...celebrated Ode which has caused so much discussion, beginning : — " Hail happy genius of this antient Pile, How comes it all things so about thee smile, The fire, the wine, the men, and in the midst Thou standest, as if some mystery thou dids't, etc." We have no idea what sums of... | |
 | Parker Woodward - English literature - 1920 - 182 pages
...friends. Ben Jonson wrote verses for the occasion: " Hail happy Genius of this Ancient Pile, How is it all things so about thee smile ? The Fire, the Wine, the Men, and in the midst, Thou standst as if some mystery thou didst. Pardon, I read it in thy face, the day... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...day, but for thy volume's light. BEN JONSON From Underwoods, folio 1640 Lord Bacon's birthday, 1621 Hail, happy Genius of this ancient pile ! How comes...so about thee smile ? The fire, the wine, the men ; and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst. Pardon, I read it in thy face, the... | |
 | Alice Chambers Bunten - 1928 - 98 pages
...celebrated Ode which has caused so much discussion, beginning:— " Hail happy genius of this antient Pile, How comes it all things so about thee smile, The fire, the wine, the men, and in the midst Thou standest, as if some mystery thou didst," etc. We have no idea what sums of money... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 pages
...among his irrelevancies. Mr. Greenwood, in his first book, quoted Ben Jonson's ode on Bacon's sixtieth birthday : Hail, happy genius of this ancient pile...so about thee smile ? The fire, the wine, the men ! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst. Pardon, I read it in thy face. The... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...paneling. Ben Jonson, genial before his host and friend, declaimed verses composed for the occasion: Hail, happy Genius of this ancient pile! How comes...things so about thee smile? The fire, the wine, the menl and in the midst, Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst . . . Son to the grave, wise Keeper... | |
 | R. Lionel Fanthorpe, P. A. Fanthorpe - History - 1995 - 238 pages
...from their first invention ..."46 It was his friend, Ben Jonson, who wrote of Bacon on his sixtieth birthday: Hail! happy genius of this ancient Pile!...so about thee smile? The fire! the wine! the men! and in the midst Thou standst as if some mystery thou didst ... (January 22nd, 1621) It was also Ben... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 pages
...consideration of the good and acceptable service done by him'. 45 Jonson, Under- Woods (No, 51), ON LORD BACON'S BIRTHDAY Hail, happy Genius of this ancient...so about thee smile? The fire, the wine, the men! and in the midst Thou stand'st as if some mystery thou didst! Pardon, I read it in thy face, the day... | |
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