 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 2161896Full view - About this book
 | Jasper Sprange - 1797 - 388 pages
...Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech and the chesnut shade ; That tall tree too which of a nut was set At his great birth where all the Muses met. The charming thought at the conclusion of the last line, is so beautifully and poetically detailed in a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech and the cheet-nut shade; 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 flamesj And thence... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...resort, 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.' (Forest, ii.) This oak, to which Waller also alludes, as — ' The sacred mark Of noble Sidney's birth—... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...resort, 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.' (Forest, ii.) This oak, to which Waller also alludes, as in the county of Kent. His handsome and accomplished... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 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.1 frequently made use of in funeral monuments, was then called by this name ; so Weaver, giving... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high seats 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." It is mentioned... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high seats 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.' " It is mentioned... | |
 | John Nichols - Great Britain - 1828 - 700 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 *. Of many a sylvan, taken with his flames; And thence the ruddy satyrs oft provoke The lighter fauns,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Kent - 1829 - 792 pages
...prove The monument and pledge of humble love. And again, by Ben Jonson, in his poem of the Forest : That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the muses met. The once magnificent, but now decayed, mansion of Penshurst, was formerly the residence of the valorous,... | |
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