The Jonson Allusion-book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700Yale University Press, 1922 - 466 pages |
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... poets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages ; and it will be of no little value as a body of seventeenth - century dramatic criticism . The editors are not vain enough to suppose that they have been able to collect all the important ...
... poets of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages ; and it will be of no little value as a body of seventeenth - century dramatic criticism . The editors are not vain enough to suppose that they have been able to collect all the important ...
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... poets mentioned above . Four passages are quoted from Jonson's The Case is Altered . ] Robert Allot , 1600 . [ In his England's Parnassus , or The Choicest Flowers of our Modern Poets , Allot quotes : Every Man in his Humour , II , i ...
... poets mentioned above . Four passages are quoted from Jonson's The Case is Altered . ] Robert Allot , 1600 . [ In his England's Parnassus , or The Choicest Flowers of our Modern Poets , Allot quotes : Every Man in his Humour , II , i ...
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... poets against all lawe and conscience ; and not content with that , hast turn'd them amongst a company of horrible blacke fryers : ... Thou art the true arraign'd poet , and shouldst have been hang'd , but for one of these part - takers ...
... poets against all lawe and conscience ; and not content with that , hast turn'd them amongst a company of horrible blacke fryers : ... Thou art the true arraign'd poet , and shouldst have been hang'd , but for one of these part - takers ...
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... poets well , and gave coxcombes to none but fooles , but thou lov'st none , neither wisemen nor fooles , but thy selfe : Horace was a goodly corpulent gentleman , and not so leane a hollow - cheekt scrag as thou art : no , heere's thee ...
... poets well , and gave coxcombes to none but fooles , but thou lov'st none , neither wisemen nor fooles , but thy selfe : Horace was a goodly corpulent gentleman , and not so leane a hollow - cheekt scrag as thou art : no , heere's thee ...
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... Poets ; if I would come to our time , what a world could I present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney , Ed . Spencer , Samuel Daniel , Hugo Holland , Ben . Johnson , Th . Campion , Mich . Drayton , George Chapman , Iohn Marston , William ...
... Poets ; if I would come to our time , what a world could I present to you out of Sir Philipp Sidney , Ed . Spencer , Samuel Daniel , Hugo Holland , Ben . Johnson , Th . Campion , Mich . Drayton , George Chapman , Iohn Marston , William ...
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Page 67 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 341 - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours.
Page 342 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.
Page 401 - Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame, By arrogating Jonson's hostile name. Let Father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise, And Uncle Ogleby thy envy raise. Thou art my blood, where Jonson has no part; What share have we in Nature or in Art? Where did his wit on learning fix a brand, And rail at arts he did not understand? Where made he love in Prince Nicander's vein, Or swept the dust in Psyche's humble strain? Where sold he bargains, whip-stitch, kiss my arse, Promis'da play and dwindled...
Page 278 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 67 - As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled; and, when that was gone, We left an air behind us which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, more wise.
Page 290 - 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.
Page 367 - To begin with Language. That an alteration is lately made in ours, or since the writers of the last age (in which I comprehend Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson), is manifest. Any man who reads those excellent poets, and compares their language with what is now written, will see it almost in every line; but that this is an improvement of the language, or an alteration for the better, will not so easily be granted. For many are of a contrary opinion, that the English tongue was then in the height...
Page 341 - Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him; and therefore I need speak no farther of it. The first play that brought Fletcher and him in esteem was their Philaster : for before that, they had written two or three very unsuccessfully, as the like is reported of Ben Jonson, before he writ Every Man in his Humour.
Page 340 - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.