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Ben Jonson ! PREFACE . THE Discoveries of Ben Jonson deserve attention for two reasons : as one of the best examples of later Elizabethan prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher ...
Ben Jonson ! PREFACE . THE Discoveries of Ben Jonson deserve attention for two reasons : as one of the best examples of later Elizabethan prose , and as one of the earliest conscious efforts at simple literary presentment . A higher ...
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... reasons which space will not permit me to set forth here , that at least two of the plays contained in this volume had received touches from the hand of the author , and that " as to the pieces dated 1640 and 1641 , some of the smaller ...
... reasons which space will not permit me to set forth here , that at least two of the plays contained in this volume had received touches from the hand of the author , and that " as to the pieces dated 1640 and 1641 , some of the smaller ...
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... reason , what he accounts it and will make it . -- Casus . Change into extremity is very frequent and easy . As when a beggar suddenly grows rich , he com- 15 monly becomes a prodigal ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
... reason , what he accounts it and will make it . -- Casus . Change into extremity is very frequent and easy . As when a beggar suddenly grows rich , he com- 15 monly becomes a prodigal ; for , to obscure his former obscurity , he puts on ...
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... reason . We labor with it more than truth . There is much more holds us than presseth us . An ill fact is one 30 thing , an ill fortune is another ; yet both oftentimes sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Impostura . Many men ...
... reason . We labor with it more than truth . There is much more holds us than presseth us . An ill fact is one 30 thing , an ill fortune is another ; yet both oftentimes sway us alike , by the error of our thinking . Impostura . Many men ...
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... reason examined with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither author nor fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict himself to me ; but if I have any- thing right , defend it as ...
... reason examined with theirs , and so much faith to be given them , or me , as those shall evict . I am neither author nor fautor of any sect . I will have no man addict himself to me ; but if I have any- thing right , defend it as ...
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Page 30 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 23 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 31 - My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson very finely, " was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself; in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 145 - I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation to discredit learning, even with vulgar capacities, when they see learned men's works like the first letter of a patent, or limned book; which though it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter?
Page 149 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly...
Page 96 - But that which most doth take my Muse and me Is a pure cup of rich canary wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
Page 111 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 147 - As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 23 - I loved the man, and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature...
Page 115 - That though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind.