 Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stairs or courts; but stand'st an ancient pile, And these, grudged at, art...  A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex - Page 127by John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - 1863 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...partakes the fleshly birth, Which cover lightly, gentle earth ! To Penshurst [the home of the Sidneys]. polished pillars or a roof of gold : Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told ; Or stair, or courts... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Kent - 1901 - 324 pages
...Ben Jonson's well-known poem is not too hackneyed for quotation here : To PENSHURST ("THE FOREST") Thou art not Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor can boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold ; Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...Which cover lightly, gentle earth ! To Penshurat [the home of the Sidneys). Thou art not, I'enshurst, discovered the strait to which his name (in the spelling Davis) ha polished pillars or a roof of gold : Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told ; Or stair, or courts... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1907 - 494 pages
...lady elegised belonged. He sang of the lavish hospitality of Penshurst as one who had enjoyed it. " Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble ; nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold : Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told ; Or stair, or courts... | |
 | Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 434 pages
...the crowd." The powerlessness of his imagination so to do is evidenced in the following lines : — " Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold ; Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told, Or stairs, or courts,... | |
 | Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 458 pages
...Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold ; Thou hast no lantern, whereof tales are told, Or stairs, or courts, but stand'st an ancient pile, And — these grudged at — art reverenced the while.... | |
 | Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 482 pages
...powcrlessncss of his imagination so to do is evidenced in the following lines : — "Thou art not, I'enshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold ; Thou hast no lantern, whereof talcs arc told, Or stairs, or courts,... | |
 | Marion Harland - Historic buildings - 1910 - 382 pages
...time, Ben Jonson had confessed the like sense of disenchantment, and apologised for what caused it: Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch, or marble ; nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lanthorn whereof tales are told ; Or stair or courts... | |
 | Malcolm William Wallace - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 448 pages
...Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble ; nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold : Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told ; Or stair, or courts ; but stand' st an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while." Jonson also refers to "... | |
 | Malcolm William Wallace - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 454 pages
...among these Ben Jonson and Waller are only the most notable. Jonson's lines have often been quoted : " Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble ; nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars or a roof of gold : Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told ; Or stair, or courts... | |
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