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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...

The Jonson Allusion-book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 - Page 367
by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams - 1922 - 466 lehte
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The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 lehte

...Writers of the last Age (in which I comprehend Shakespear, Fletcher and Jonsori) is manifest . . . But, that this is an Improvement of the Language,...was then in the height of its perfection; that, from Jonsons time to ours, it has been in a continual declination. Swift fears the same thing: "From that...

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