| 单词 | Ben Jonson |
| 例句 | That copy-now in the library of the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court in London—had previously been owned by his friend and Shakespeare’s, Ben Jonson. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Behind him two students discuss the poems of Ben Jonson. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Herrick's contemporary, English poet Ben Jonson put it bluntly. "Love Island": how women with "fake" faces have been belittled throughout history 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Ben Jonson describes a literary pretender of the day, writing: “All his behaviours are printed, and his face is another volume of essays.” The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This means that the Ben Jonson's Head was located just 100 yards or so from Hartshorn Lane, the long-vanished street near Charing Cross where Jonson grew up. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z You wont get far in Stratford-upon-Avon suggesting that Shakespeare was really Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson or the Earl of Southampton. Dig seeks William Shakespeare's shards for ale in his Stratford back garden 2010-04-05T16:33:00Z In this context of ignorance it seems worthwhile to look into the case of Ben Jonson's "studying chair", a piece of early literary furniture of which there is a brief and almost contemporary description. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z Logan wants us to know, too, that damask was so expensive in Ben Jonson’s day that a single tablecloth cost as much as a pile of bricks big enough to build a two-mile-long wall. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It's a mammoth task to synthesise so much knowledge, and so many theories, about Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and the whole panorama of Elizabethan theatre, but 'tis well done, i'faith. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z All this made me think of Ben Jonson and his puppets and his puritans. Ben Jonson, like Charb of Charlie Hebdo, sought to reduce zealots 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Another competitor, Ben Jonson, coined more than double the words that Shakespeare did. The creation of William Shakespeare: How the Bard really became a legend 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z On the other hand, Mitchell Hebert gets to chew the scenery as Shakespeare’s leading man Richard Burbage and then create a dry, bitter and very funny portrayal of rival playwright Ben Jonson. Review | The book on Lauren Gunderson, topping U.S. theater charts 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z A mere professional, like Shakespeare or his colleague and sometime rival Ben Jonson, could never dream of committing masterpieces like “King Lear” or “Macbeth.” Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z Indeed, the contemporary playwright Ben Jonson famously wrote that Shakespeare had "small Latin, and less Greek." Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z The obvious candidate would seem to be Ben Jonson: but if he did write them, why didn't he sign them? Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z I think of the superior comedies, among them, his staging of Ben Jonson’s “The Silent Woman” and Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” as well as Keith Baxter’s direction of Sheridan’s “The Rivals.” How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Even though I'd like to see Shakespeare one day restored to full-scale production in the park, this provides a delightful introduction to a play jealously dismissed by Ben Jonson as "some mouldy tale". Pericles ? review 2011-07-11T20:45:01Z As he points out, in 1596 the actor Gabriel Spencer killed a man in a duel, and two years later he was himself killed in another by Shakespeare's colleague Ben Jonson. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z Ben Jonson's vaunting 1616 collection of his works directs the reader's attention towards classical allusion rather than roistering theatricality; Shaw's dialogue famously has to wriggle past screeds of argumentative stage direction. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z Despite that, he went on to marry Venetia Stanley, a famous 17th-century beauty painted by Van Dyck and elegised by Ben Jonson. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It offers a glimpse of Shakespeare’s personality — including several stories of cavorting with fellow playwright Ben Jonson and other pals — and examines his reputation during his life and after his death. The playwright’s the thing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z This notion wasn’t unprecedented; Ben Jonson had recently published a folio of his own works. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In the play's funniest scene, he is berated by a drunken Ben Jonson for his supposed serenity. Bingo 2010-04-25T20:45:00Z Ben Jonson said it nearly four centuries ago, and — now that our fingers hover constantly over keyboards — it’s never been more true: “Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.” Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z A list of places is given where these nostrums can be bought, and one of them is "the Ben Jonson's Head, near Yorkhouse". Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z Various rival suggested authors have included fellow playwright Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, the Earls of Oxford and Derby, Francis Bacon and even a spurious suggestion that Elizabeth I might have influenced 'bardoltry'. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z It was this version that became a European bestseller: Ben Jonson mentions it more than once in his plays. Are these Shakespeare's dirty pictures? 2010-12-10T13:46:00Z Arguably, it begins with poetry: Ben Jonson and Andrew Marvell both penned lavish tributes to the estates of wealthy friends and patrons in the 17th century. The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z The show also acquires a tougher edge with its attacks on exploitative newspapermen who, with their tall hats and accosting beaks, look like savage predators from a Ben Jonson comedy. I Was a Rat! – review 2013-02-17T13:49:00Z Before Shakespeare the only playwright known to have been so honored was his contemporary Ben Jonson, who honored himself by overseeing “The Workes of Benjamin Jonson” in 1616. Exhibits and collectors editions mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s friend and rival Ben Jonson authenticated the likeness. Review | What did Shakespeare really look like? One writer’s quest to find out. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Golden Ages in the theater are not just a coincidence of lucky births, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides or Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z This appraisal, reached long before Kramer’s death, surprised me, as I had assumed the play, to reverse Ben Jonson’s words about Shakespeare, was not for all time but for an age. Larry Kramer, the AIDS activist whose playwriting saved lives 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The piece nods to histories of racial objectification and key works related to those issues — including Ben Jonson’s 1605 play, “The Masque of Blaqueness,” and Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, “Invisible Man.” Datebook: Paintings that serve as reflections of indigenous life in Australia 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z London in the late 16th century, with a chance of meeting Will Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Ian McEwan: ‘I despise lying, ideological Brexiters’ 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The spirit trumpet is one of a number of arcane and intriguing objects in Linder’s exhibition, which is titled The House of Fame, in tribute to a Ben Jonson masque and Chaucer’s dream poem. 'Do you have any ectoplasm? Is it vaginal?' The return of punk artist Linder 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Speaking of gory homicides, Ben Jonson, a playwright second only to Shakespeare in the Elizabethan-Jacobean era, killed an actor in a duel and was arrested. As artists fall into disgrace, must their art be consigned to oblivion? – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In 1620, Ben Jonson’s masque News from the New World Discovered in the Moon was performed before King James I, entertaining the court with satire but also elucidating the newest astronomical viewpoints. Flying Chariots and Exotic Birds: How 17th Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Military forces have long sought to rein in the “rogue soldier,” a phrase that can be traced all the way back to 1601 and playwright Ben Jonson . ‘Rogue’ Dates Back Long Before ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Indeed, the hurricane that shipwrecked Rolfe is said to have inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest, although, unlike his friend Ben Jonson, Shakespeare never met Pocahontas; he died six weeks before she arrived in London. What's Missing From the Pocahontas Story 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z His friend Ben Jonson, addressing “the Reader”, initially says that “gentle Shakespeare” is the “soul of the age”, placing him firmly in a metropolitan context, as “the wonder of our stage”. Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z He would have been happy had Ben Jonson got a shield and motto of his own. A Point of View: Why do medals make people happy? - BBC News 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Similarly, compared to Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton — the only authors whose surviving corpus approaches Shakespeare’s in size — Shakespeare was perfectly average in the rate at which he coined words. Five myths about William Shakespeare 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z As Ben Jonson wrote in a wonderfully generous poem included in the prefatory matter, this is a book “not of an age, but for all time”. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Ben Jonson met her at an inn, referring to it in his play The Staple of News. What's Missing From the Pocahontas Story 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Unlike Ben Jonson, his competitor and contemporary, he seems to have showed virtually no interest in posterity. Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z They have found considerable hilarity in this Ben Jonson comedy from the early 17th century, in spite of the work’s flaws. A Review of ‘The Alchemist’ in Madison 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I do not even remember whether I meant Sam Johnson or Ben Jonson,” he writes. Lost T.S. Eliot letter turns up after 40 years 2013-02-13T12:24:00Z Their ambitious theatre program produces not merely Midsummer's Night Dream and The Tempest but a full dress four-hour production of Ben Jonson's Volpone. A Point of View: On bees and beings 2012-06-03T10:32:45Z Grinning, Raleigh lit his pipe, a dozen men around our table, elbowing Ben Jonson and me. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The Devil tavern, which stood near Temple Bar, on the south side, was a favourite hostelrie of Ben Jonson. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z Rare Ben Jonson was surely elated by the lists of royal and noble personages who presented his masques. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He seems to have been present at the first performance of The Alchemist in 1610, and it was probably about this time that Ben Jonson adopted him as his poetical “son.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The first of these two dramas Ben Jonson saw acted in 1610. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z To Ben Jonson—fifty pounds and this journal. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Ben Jonson and his companions at the Mermaid would not have known their old friend Will in his new disguise. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z London was Ben Jonson's world; its people, such as they appeared to him, the whole human race. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Sir Philip Sidney's Oak, near Penshurst, is said to have been planted at his birth, in 1554: it has been celebrated by Ben Jonson and Waller. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 108, November 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-20T02:00:10.797Z Years before he wrote his own sentiments, the Puritan nomenclature had been roughly handled on the stage, and by such ruthless pens as Ben Jonson, Cowley, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z What would we not give for a description of a dinner with Shakspeare and Ben Jonson—of a dance with the Maids of Queen Elizabeth—of a chat with Milton in a morning call? Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z It is also described by Ben Jonson— “The letters may be read, through the horn, That make the story perfect.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z And yet its fidelity is certified by Ben Jonson in laudatory lines. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z But you do hear Ben Jonson called an Elizabethan poet, which is just as absurd. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z This ever present and ever welcome scent which pervades the entire garden if leaf or flower of the loved Ambrosia be crushed, is curious and characteristic, a true "ambrosiack odor," to use Ben Jonson's words. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z In the contention with Ben Jonson, one of the most celebrated quarrels of authors, the origin of which is matter of dispute, Dekker seems to have had very much the best of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z But when we turn to Ben Jonson's Alchemist and come across Tribulation Wholesome, from Amsterdam, we know that the battle between the stage and the conventicle has begun. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z I think of Ben Jonson's simile, "They jump farthest who fetch their race largest." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z In the same year was published the Garden of the Muses, containing several pieces from Shakespeare, Chapman, Marston and Ben Jonson. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Inigo Jones, the court architect, for whom Ben Jonson had long supplied the words of masques and complimentary pieces, quarrelled with his great colleague in the year 1634, and applied to William Davenant for verses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Thus, Ben Jonson’s hero runs riot with glowing anticipations of what the alchemical magisterium can effect. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The abundance of bloodshed in Elizabethan tragedy may find some interpretation in the fact that Ben Jonson killed his man in a duel and that Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern brawl. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Shakespeare brought out this year his play of The Winter's Tale, and Ben Jonson his Catiline. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Ben Jonson makes use of it at least twice. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z On the death of Spenser, in the same year, Daniel received the somewhat vague office of poet-laureate, which he seems, however, to have shortly resigned in favour of Ben Jonson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z It is unblushingly plain-spoken and richly fanciful, like Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z In the same years Ben Jonson was receiving pay from Henslowe of the rival company for two sets of additions to "The Spanish Tragedy," and these were published in 1602. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z For the sweetness of "the panther's breath or rather body" I refer the reader to Gifford's note in his edition of Ben Jonson, v. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z I mean songs of Shakespeare's time—Ben Jonson's, Beaumont and Fletcher's, and Massinger's, you know. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z Many of the Shakespeare folios have the portrait and verses by Ben Jonson laid down or "re-laid," as the catalogues generally describe it. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z There are not, however, many of interest among them, except several of Ben Jonson. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Such application of poetic justice had been earlier expounded by Ben Jonson in defense of the punishments inflicted in his comedy, "Volpone." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The inscription on the common pavement stone which was laid over his grave still expresses, after a lapse of two hundred years, the feelings of all readers of the English race,— "O rare Ben Jonson!" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Shakespeare, on being godfather to one of Ben Jonson’s children, gave him “a dozen of Latten spoons.” Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z We know that Ben Jonson saw the Romans and Carthaginians fighting, marching and countermarching, across his great toe. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Among our foremost literary celebrities, Shakespear wrote the Court hand, judging from his signature, and Bacon and Ben Jonson the Italian. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Shelley reads The Case is Altered of Ben Jonson aloud in the evening. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z A pity it is that, instead of a formal deposition before a judge's clerk, chance did not bring to light a conversation with Ben Jonson. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Ben Jonson refers to it in the Tale of a Tub, iii., Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z Very few supposed that he belonged to literature; and a complete, uniform edition of his Works would perhaps have been received with something of the mockery that greeted Ben Jonson's folio in 1616. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Ben Jonson and Shirley writers of Grammars—Some account of the former—Thomas Hayne’s Latin Grammar—A curious anecdote about it. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z That the courteous young gentleman who had come with a letter from Ben Jonson should be concerned in the assassination of the King of France was entirely absurd and out of the question. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Ben Jonson, indeed, has designed his plots himself; but no man has borrowed so much from the ancients as he has done: and he did well in it, for he has thereby beautified our language. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Ben Jonson was buried at Westminster in an upright position: possibly this may have been on account of the large fee demanded for a full-sized grave. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z The “Masque of Gentlemen” may have been Ben Jonson’s The Golden Age Restored, in a Masque at Court, 1615, by the Lords and Gentlemen, the King’s Servants, first printed in the folio of 1616. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour 2011-09-12T02:00:24.913Z Shakespeare, Ben Jonson & Co., must have crossed the bridge many a time on their visits to the City, to ‘gather humours of men daily,’ as Aubrey quaintly expresses it.” A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z She had no resentment against Ben Jonson now; her heart was full of assurance and triumph, and was therefore generous. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Ben Jonson himself, after whom I may be proud to err, has given me more than once the example of it. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z Ben Jonson visited him, and other scholars and poets. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z And here too is the famous Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford, the friend and patroness of Ben Jonson, looking sentimental in a widow's dress, with a white pocket handkerchief. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z The “orange-women” of Ben Jonson we have figured to the life. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z I heard thee declare that Ben Jonson had no words to say how fair she was: would you better his description and overmaster him? Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z But Ben Jonson is to be admired for many excellencies; and can be taxed with fewer failings than any English poet. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z It was from those outdoor spectacles of the Italians that the French court-ballets are directly descended, and also the English masks, which demanded the collaboration of Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z There is character enough in the countenance to make us turn with pleasure to Ben Jonson's exquisite eulogium on her. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z It is not saying much; but it is not the first remark an acquaintance would probably have made about Ben Jonson or Samuel Johnson. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Pray you remember, sir, I have seen Master Ben Jonson. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Ben Jonson tells us that his own wife was “a shrew, yet honest.” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z In like manner one of the characters in Ben Jonson's 'Every Man out of His Humor' speaks of "a new motion of the city of Nineveh, with Jonas and the whale." A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z One incident which Jonson related and Drummond recorded may be found in The Library of the World's Best Literature under the title, Ben Jonson. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Ben Jonson in his "Discoveries" has incorporated the translation of a portion of one of the Emblems and has also incorporated a portion of the annotations from this very book. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z "And Master Jonson, good Prue—that they call Ben Jonson—what of him?" Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Fletcher and Ben Jonson wrote many masques which were acted at Court. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z A puppet showman who appears in Ben Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair' tells us that a certain motion setting forth the mysterious Gunpowder Plot, was "a get-penny." A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z What it enjoys most of all, in England at anyrate, is the grain de folie, the lurking, unlooked-for quaintness, which characterises some of their humorists, Dickens, for instance, and Ben Jonson. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z On the 2nd October, 1623, Ben Jonson entered a translation in Stationers' Hall, but it was never published. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z If Master Leofric Hope talked of Ben Jonson when he came into the country, she would have him furnished with something to say of her father when he returned to town. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Several of Ben Jonson’s masques were written for performance at Theobald’s. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Suppose, for the moment, that as in Morose of Ben Jonson’s Silent Woman,11 the dramatist is stressing one characteristic, in this instance morbid sensitiveness to noise of any kind. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Ben Jonson passes from the comedy of Every Man in his Humour to the bitterness of Volpone, Swift from the comparative lightness of Gulliver in Lilliput, to the savage brutality of the Hounyhymns. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z It was not, however, till many years after Ben Jonson’s death that the so-called newspapers put forward their full powers as purveyors of the marvellous. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z "Ben Jonson!" she said, but no longer with any anger, rather with a sovereign contempt. Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z The hymn to Pan is especially interesting in comparison with two of Keats’s Elizabethan sources, Chapman’s translation of the Homeric hymn and Ben Jonson’s original hymns in his masque of Pan’s Anniversary. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Secondly, it is both easy to create, and, as Ben Jonson’s great following between 1605 and 1750 proves, even easier to imitate. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Thus appear “The Silent Woman, a Comedy by the famous Ben Jonson;” “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written by the immortal Shakespeare;” “The Soldier’s Fortune, written by the late ingenious Mr. Otway.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z When Ben Jonson called the newspaper ‘a weekly cheat to draw money,’ and ridiculed the growing taste for news, he had some reason for satirising the journalism of the period. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z And what a prize were this, now, for Master Ben Jonson! Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z And here are two of the most characteristic strophes from Ben Jonson’s hymns:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The characters of Dickens, then, are personified humours, his method is the method not of Shakespeare, but of Ben Jonson. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Ben Jonson has positively told that he wrote a piece on the Punic wars, which Rawleigh “altered and set in his book.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z But it is none the less true that before Ben Jonson there was no systematic attempt to force, as it were, the classic ideal on English literature. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z On the front page is a portrait of the bard and the familiar line of “rare” Ben Jonson:— “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z This belief is mentioned by two writers at least with whom Keats was very familiar: by Ben Jonson in his masque The Satyr and Robert Burton in the Anatomy 397 of Melancholy. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The inn where Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other sympathetic friends used to meet, is presented to the imagination, and Shakespeare is the speaker. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z In one of the most original and most fanciful of the dramas of Ben Jonson, “The Sad Shepherd,” the poet designed to appropriate a provincial dialect to the Witch Maudlin’s family. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The fourth stage of English criticism, of which Ben Jonson is, as it were, the presiding genius, occupies the first half of the seventeenth century. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z In spite of his peculiarities, Drummond found “rare Ben Jonson” a most interesting companion. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z He was familiar with, or corresponded with, all the ablest men of the day, counting as he did, Davenant, Suckling, Ben Jonson, and Lord Falkland, and all that brilliant circle, among his intimate friends. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Epithalamia have been written by Spenser, Ben Jonson, and Donne. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z If we turn to our own literature of half a century later, we see a parallel decline in the drama down from Shakespeare to Shirley and the later disciples of Ben Jonson. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Ben Jonson has usually been regarded as the forerunner of neo-classicism in England; but long before his influence was felt, classical tendencies may be observed in English criticism. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z There is one part of his conduct, however, which I wish had been omitted, as it savours too much of cunning, and reminds us too strongly of Ben Jonson’s Volpone. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Ben Jonson sent him a copy of Volpone with the inscription, “To his loving father and worthy friend Master John Florio, Ben Jonson seals this testimony of his friendship and love.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Ben Jonson appears to allude to this proverb in the Sad Shepherd, where Maudlin says—"Do you give a thing and take a thing, madam?" Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z The only musical number in this act consists of a song, very grotesque in style, for Caliban, words by Ben Jonson, music by Christopher Smith. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z This vaguely defines the change which comes over the spirit of criticism about the beginning of the seventeenth century, and which is exemplified in the writings of Ben Jonson. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Bobadil, in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, has generally been regarded as a copy of the Miles Gloriosus; but the late editor of Jonson thinks him a creation sui generis, and perfectly original. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z “If you don’t throw out a line there,” he said, “then Ben Jonson certainly gets recopyrighted.” Sidebar: Once in Public Hands, Now Back in Picasso?s 2011-03-21T16:14:58Z It has since occurred to me that it may have originated in some way or other with the actor of that name mentioned by Ben Jonson. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Ben Jonson as broad in aim as Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Ben Jonson is considerably less stringent in this respect than Sidney. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Those of Kno’well, in Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, have a particular resemblance to them. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Ben Jonson was his dramatic model, and may have helped his career. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Letting that pass, I take the opportunity of giving an anecdote respecting Ben Jonson and Randolph, which affords another illustration of the analogy above mentioned. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z Had Shakspeare been as learned as Ben Jonson, he would have written no better than Ben Jonson. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Ben Jonson was the first complete and consistent English classicist; and his classicism differs from that of the succeeding age rather in degree than in kind. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z He was an approved royalist; he had, in fact, been laureate to Charles I. after Ben Jonson’s death in 1637; and he had suffered much in the cause of the king. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z There was the Countess of Pembroke, celebrated by Ben Jonson, The subject of all verse, Sydney's sister, Pembroke's mother. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Before his time the manner of Ben Jonson had prevailed in comedy, and traditional “humours” and typical eccentricities, instead of real characters, had crowded the comic stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Friend of the great as he was, Ben Jonson was yet an Aristophanic, nay, a Rabelaisian democrat; Massinger is a gentleman and a courtier. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z There is nothing of these things in Ben Jonson. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z That excessive fluency which astonished Ben Jonson when he listened to Shakespeare in person astonishes the world yet. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z I know not what her Ladyship may have paid for the following exquisite lines by Ben Jonson; but the reader will agree with me, that it could not have been too much. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Lady Pembroke has been celebrated by Spenser and by Ben Jonson, and was, in every respect, a most accomplished woman. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z It is a study in the manner of Ben Jonson. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This section deals especially with the two great periods of Italian influence,—that of Sidney and that of Ben Jonson. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z “He sometimes required stopping,” is Ben Jonson’s expression; and whoever does not see a whole volume of revelation respecting Shakespeare in that single trait has no eye for seeing anything. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Ben Jonson furnishes a number of noble examples in his Underwoods; and one or two of Spenser’s little poems and a great many of Herrick’s are properly classed as epigrams. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z There can be no doubt, therefore, that Ben Jonson disliked Shakespeare’s tolerance of the hybrid class of play then in vogue. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Nor must we forget the splendid series of Masques, into which Ben Jonson put some of his best work; to this Massinger has but little to oppose. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Ben Jonson pays more attention to the theory of comedy than to that of tragedy; but his conception of the latter does not differ from Sidney's. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Ben Jonson and he did gather humours of men daily wherever they came.... The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z It is rare in Shakespeare, but Ben Jonson made it a particular feature of his drama, and may almost be said to have invented the tradition of its regular use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Then there was Ben Jonson at hand to instruct his elder rival on the superiority of Latin comedy. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z And then, as we all know, Ben Jonson bursts out from time to time with a great lyric, whereas Massinger's songs are commonplace. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The character was fixed from the beginning of the play to the end; and it is here that we may find the origin of Ben Jonson's conception of "humours." A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Said Ben Jonson, ‘I wish he had blotted out a thousand.’ The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z And the eulogist of both men, Ben Jonson, must be named in their company for his senatorial weight and dignity of ethical counsel and critical maxim. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Ben Jonson has left on record that he could dress better than forty women, and, in the disguise of a lawyer’s wife, he could convulse a supper party with merriment. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The women remind us of Ben Jonson's women, but with less strength there is a greater art shown here than Ben Jonson had at his command. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z At thirty-four he was heard of as the actor of Knowell in Ben Jonson's comedy of Every Man in his Humour† and he received the glowing encomium of Meres in Wits Treasury. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z The genius of Inigo Jones was for many years chained down to the invention of scenery and decoration for these trifles, while Ben Jonson exercised his muse in writing verses and dialogues for the masquerades. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z Ben Jonson. or, as instances of brevity, Be guilty of my death since of my crime. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But this was an achievement which no dramatist of his time attempted, unless it was Ben Jonson, who wrote artificial comedy after the classical models. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The same name is found in Ben Jonson's unfortunate New Inn, produced in 1629. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The story that he died of drinking too hard at a merry meeting with Drayton and Ben Jonson is idle gossip. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Tradition had it that the weapon had once belonged to Sir William Davenant, who pretended to have received it from Ben Jonson. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The influence, however, of Cicero on the Anglican pulpit was immediate as well as constant; and so was that of the conciser Roman masters, Sallust and Tacitus, on Ben Jonson and on Bacon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Again, the incident of the gods’ banquet, although it is modelled by Ben Jonson upon the synod of the Iliad, is obviously a satire upon Chapman’s ecstatic admiration for Homer’s heroes. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Last of all Ben Jonson “had openly vaunted himself the first and best of English poets.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Little Latin and less Greek even Ben Jonson allowed our William, and manifestly he was fed on Tudor translations. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z And we can understand the marvelous influence which Castiglione's matchless work—inspired by the beloved Duchess Elizabetta—had upon the masters of English literature—on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, Marlow, Shelley. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z He is continually traceable in 17th-century verse, blending with the alien currents of Ben Jonson and of Donne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z So at Christmas, 1601, when Ben Jonson produced his “Poetaster” at Blackfriars, the younger dramatist defended his friend from the silly objections which had been made to the Trojan comedy. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z In his comedies, we see some approximation to Ben Jonson; it is instructive to compare Eastward Ho! with The City Madam. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z It was in consequence of the rigour of this enactment that Ben Jonson narrowly escaped a prosecution for blasphemy. A Cursory History of Swearing The saying will be found in Ben Jonson's "Tale of a Tub," in Butler's "Hudibras," and elsewhere. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources On his return he gained some complimentary allusions from Ben Jonson by his attacks upon the Spanish marriage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Unlike Ben Jonson, he never devoted his talents to the service of the stage carpenter. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z I do not deny that Ben Jonson was the greater man, but I find him more archaic and more difficult to read than Massinger. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z At the age of sixteen he published a translation, in verse, of Ovid's Fable of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and before nineteen became the friend of Ben Jonson. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Kempe’s dance is alluded to by Ben Jonson, in his “Every Man out of his Humour.” Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations Ben Jonson, among the poets, extolled in an epigram his “wing’d judgements,” “purest hands,” and constancy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" While one of the Royal Chapel boys, Field distinguished himself in Ben Jonson’s comedy, “Cynthia’s Revels,” acted entirely by children. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Shakspere's plays are marked by many faults of construction, taste, and detail; he who never blotted a line should certainly, as Ben Jonson remarked, have blotted a good many. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Himself a man of European reputation, he numbered among his friends Bacon, Ben Jonson, Galileo, Descartes, Harvey and Cromwell. The Old English Herbals See Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," act iv. sc. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Ben Jonson voluntarily joined the two, who were soon released. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" This was an innovation, probably suggested to them by the booksellers at the instigation of Ben Jonson. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z I allow that Ben Jonson had a greater intellect; that Beaumont and Fletcher had more genius, more pathos, more humour; that Marlowe, Webster, and Ford, each in his own way, were greater poets. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Surely of the passionate dead we can but cry in words Ben Jonson meant for none but Shakespeare: “So rammed” are they “with life they can but grow in life with being.” Per Amica Silentia Lunae This celebrated horse is mentioned by several writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, as Ben Jonson, in "Every Man out of his Humour," act iv. sc. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 These friendly relations appear to have been interrupted later, for there is extant in the Ashmole MSS. an “Invective written by Mr George Chapman against Mr Ben Jonson.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Ben Jonson—Story of his life; character of his plays; his devotion to the classics. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women His models appear to have been Marlowe for metre and Ben Jonson for treatment. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z He is the subject of tragedies by Ben Jonson and P. Cr�billon, and of the Rome sauv�e of Voltaire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Have brief sketches of Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Bacon, and Spenser, with readings. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Cartwright was a “son” of Ben Jonson and an especial favourite with his contemporaries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" To prevent a second claim it was the practice to brand murderers with the letter M, and other felons with the Tyburn T, and Ben Jonson was in 1598 so marked for manslaughter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" As Massinger was but nineteen in 1603 he cannot have been the “happy genius” referred to in the address “to the readers” of Ben Jonson's play. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Thus, or near this manner, was Horace his Art of Poetry translated by Ben Jonson. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Marlowe and Shakespeare were still at school, and Ben Jonson was but five years old. The Cutting of an Agate In the winter of 1618-1619, Drummond had included Ben Jonson in his circle of literary friends, and at Christmas 1618 was honoured with a visit of a fortnight or more from the dramatist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" His lyrical poetry was mainly the product of his exile, if we are to believe Ben Jonson, who told Drummond of Hawthornden that Donne “wrote all his best pieces ere he was 25 years old.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" This they industriously propagated, as appears from what we are told by Ben Jonson in his Discoveries, and from the preface of Heminges and Condell to the first folio edition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 It is bright and amusing, in the style common to the “sons” of Ben Jonson, the university wits who wrote more for the closet than the public stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" He fled to England, and died some three months later in January, 1599, as Ben Jonson says, ‘of lack of bread.’ The Cutting of an Agate He died in London on the 23rd of December 1631, was buried in Westminster Abbey, and had a monument placed over him by the countess of Dorset, with memorial lines attributed to Ben Jonson. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" In the following year Ben Jonson "came forth to warm our ears," and soon after we have his future co-worker Inigo Jones. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I am inclined to think, this opinion proceeded originally from the zeal of the partisans of our author and Ben Jonson; as they endeavoured to exalt the one at the expense of the other. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 With the tractates of Ben Jonson, several of them lost, the criticism of the Renaissance may be said to close. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Ben Jonson represents a character in the old play The Puritan as saying in regard to a laborious undertaking: "Marry, it will take me much sweat; I were better to go to sixteen hothouses." Women of England Spenser, Hall and Ben Jonson, all speak in the highest terms of what seems to us a most uninteresting poem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" A glance over Ben Jonson, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, is enough to reveal their frank and easy method. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Because Shakspeare borrowed nothing, it was said that Ben Jonson borrowed every thing. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 See on this subject an article by Prof. F. E. Schelling, "Ben Jonson and the Classical School," in the Publications of the Modern Language Association, n. s. vol. vi. p. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History On the other hand, Spenser separates the lilies from the flower-de-luces in his “Shepherd’s Calendar;” and Ben Jonson mentions “rich carnations, flower-de-luces, lilies.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare His conviviality was famous, and many stories are told of his youthful merrymaking in London taverns in company with Ben Jonson, who always remained his close friend, and other dramatists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" In connection with the love of pageantry which then prevailed, it is well known that Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were wont to arrange the Masques which were so much in vogue in their time. Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition The nickname “Fastidious Brisk,” from Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of his Humour, was applied by Mr. Henley to Stevenson—very inappropriately as I always thought. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) See also Ben Jonson's "Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme," for a humorous complaint against the requirements of rime upon the poet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It was the practice to put them to death; and Ben Jonson, in his “Bartholomew Fair,” speaks of “the dog-killer” in this month of August. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Another such club was that which met at the Devil Tavern near Temple Bar; and of this Ben Jonson is supposed to have been the founder. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" “It is the Devil by his several languages,” said Ben Jonson. Devil Stories An Anthology Among the dramatists of the Jacobean time Ben Jonson had especially the repute of scholarship. Minor Poems by Milton "From this time on," says Mr. Gosse, "Dryden's blank verse was more severe than any which had been used, except by Milton, since Ben Jonson." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Hence the name of one of the characters in Ben Jonson’s “Alchemist.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare He was a great lover of books and collected a large library, was well read in the Roman and in the contemporary histories both foreign and English, and could appreciate Carew, Ben Jonson and Cowley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Marlowe, like Shakespeare, from an actor became a writer of plays; but though Ben Jonson extolled his "mighty muse," I doubt whether his Edward II., Books Condemned to be Burnt But when we come to Ben Jonson we have a different story. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Ben Jonson: Epigram 86 If worlds were formed by matter, And mankind from the dust; Till time shall end more timely, There's nothing here to trust. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 Nearly all the poets of that time spoke of it in the same strain, with the exception of Ben Jonson and the two Fletchers. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Shakespeare makes Falstaff hire red-nosed Bardolph in St. Paul's, and Ben Jonson lays the third act of his Every Man in his Humour in the middle aisle. Old and New London Volume I What a spectacle for a Moli�re or a Ben Jonson. The Forerunners About Ben Jonson we can speak more certainly. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Witness the Lamentation of Mary Magdalene in the works of Chaucer, and the beautiful legend of Hew of Lincoln, which he has inserted in his Canterbury Tales; witness also the hymns of Ben Jonson. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century We all know what Ben Jonson said about Shakespeare and we all agree with him. Pot-Boilers In Bow Lane resided Thomas Coryat, an eccentric traveller of the reign of James I., and a butt of Ben Jonson and his brother wits. Old and New London Volume I Shakspeare and Ben Jonson were vagrants, deserving of the stocks; poetry was foolishness; law, politics, and money-making the sole occupations worthy of a masculine and vigorous mind. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Out of the Declaration Shakespeare and Ben Jonson mined those ores which when fused and refined by imagination and fancy were shaped into the shining forms of art. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Consider this image of Ben Jonson’s—of a lily being the flower of light. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The British Museum possesses a copy of Florio's Montaigne, which was the property of Ben Jonson. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare He created the part of Alexander, was excellent as Brutus, and terribly and vigorously wicked as Ben Jonson's Cataline. Old and New London Volume I Abel Drugger, in Ben Jonson’s “Alchemist,” was one of Garrick’s famous parts. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature "In affecting the ancients," said Ben Jonson, "he writ no language." Spenser Probably the happy word ‘sprung’ in the following passage from Ben Jonson was suggested by it; but then the poet must have had the feeling in him. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century This is the play Dekker wrote as a revenge for Ben Jonson's "Poetaster," 1601, in which he was himself ridiculed under the name of Demetrius. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare In the dedication the poet says, "For whose innocence as for the author's you were once a noble and kindly undertaker: signed, your true lover, Ben Jonson." Old and New London Volume I Ben Jonson’s “Alchemist,” iii, 2: “And ta’en an inventory of what they are.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I could not think lightly of what Ben Jonson has called “The Eloquence of Masques;” entertainments on which from three to five thousand pounds were expended, and on more public occasions ten and twenty thousand. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The contemporary dramatists, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Marlowe, &c., had many merits, some of them were great men. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century They are especially to be found in Ben Jonson; see, for example, his satire of courtiers in "Cynthia's revels," act iii. sc. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare This poet of the great Elizabethan race was one of Ben Jonson's great rivals. Old and New London Volume I Shakspeare’s characters are men; Ben Jonson’s are more like machines, governed by mere routine, or by the convenience of the poet, whose property they are.... Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature While these researches had engaged my attention, appeared Gifford’s Memoirs of Ben Jonson. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 In the matter of inscriptions, we have, of course, that by Ben Jonson on Shakespeare’s portrait, and that by Dryden under Milton’s picture—the last-named being by no means deserving of its reputation. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Ben Jonson: "Why, throw yourself in state on the stage, as other gentlemen use, sir." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare It was supplied with water from the spring of Dame Anne's, the "Clear," mentioned by Ben Jonson in his "Bartholomew Fair." Old and New London Volume I Of Ben Jonson’s tragedies Hazlitt held a higher opinion than of his comedies. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature And Ben Jonson, in his “Tale of a Tub,” ridicules Inigo Jones’s love of two words he often used:— ————If it conduce To the design, whate’er is feasible, I can express. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Everyone knows the little poem in which Ben Jonson details his preferences in women’s dress, declaring that ‘a sweet disorder’ does more bewitch him ‘than when art Is too precise in every part.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects With the Lady Selinda, in whose box he sits, he discusses the merits of the play, the value of the French rules and the license of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Decker and Ben Jonson furnished the speeches and songs for this pageant. Old and New London Volume I We know that Ben Jonson learned much there, and we can hardly doubt that Shakespeare did likewise. An Introduction to Shakespeare Ben Jonson’s prose descriptions of scenes in his own exquisite Masques, as Gifford observes, “are singularly bold and beautiful.” Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 There was not much of it in the Elizabethan days, though some bears the signature of rare Ben Jonson. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Thus again, Peregrine goes to the famous St. Bartholomew fair, which was still, as in Ben Jonson's time, a place of general meeting. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare It had been at first proposed to train some boys of Merchant Taylors' School to welcome the king, but Ben Jonson was finally invited to write an entertainment. Old and New London Volume I There is a possible reference to it in Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour, which came out in 1599. An Introduction to Shakespeare The minor figures in Ben Jonson's Comedies of Humours are mere personifications of exaggerated individual traits. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews This society comprised all that the age held most distinguished for learning and talent, numbering amongst its members Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Selden, Sir Walter Raleigh, Donne, Cotton, Carew, Martin, and many others. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Now, Master Bame,—come closer—my good friend, Ben Jonson here, hath lately found a way Of—hush! Collected Poems Volume Two But all we really know is that Beaumont and Ben Jonson met at the "Mermaid," and Shakespeare might have been of the company. Old and New London Volume I The following close parallelism between Ben Jonson and Horace, though a little wide of your correspondent's suggestion, is also worthy of notice. Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Peacock is in fiction what the dramatists of the school of Ben Jonson down to Shadwell are in comedy—he works in "humours." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Ben Jonson had another club, of which he appears to have been the founder, held in a room of the old Devil Tavern, distinguished by the name of the "Apollo." Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc "Bring the muscadel," Ben Jonson roared—"'Tis a more purple drink, And suits with the next canto!" Collected Poems Volume Two They were translated by Alexander Brome, a poetical attorney of the day, who was one of Ben Jonson's twelve adopted poetical sons. Old and New London Volume I He said over softly Ben Jonson's quaint lines,— "Here she was wont to go, and here, and here, Just where the daisies, pinks, and violets grow: The world may find the spring by following her." Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The opening lines are suggested by Ben Jonson's Elegy on the Marchioness of Winchester, a lady whose death was also lamented by Milton. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) A character in Ben Jonson's comedy, "Every Man in his Humour." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The revival of this performance, which Ben Jonson calls stale and mouldy, was probably his earliest attempt in the Drama. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare At the "Devil" the Apollo Club, almost the first institution of the kind in London, held its merry meetings, presided over by that grim yet jovial despot, Ben Jonson. Old and New London Volume I Christopher Marlowe, whose "mighty line" was celebrated by Ben Jonson, is one of the glories of English literature. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Coleridge admits that our New Testament is less elegant and correct than the Old, and contains "slovenly phrases which would never have come from Ben Jonson, or any other good prose writer of the day." Flowers of Freethought (First Series) This poem was prefixed to the first folio edition of Shakespeare, 1623, and is also printed in Ben Jonson's "Underwoods." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer This description of Ben Jonson, down to the words “with infinite labour and study could but hardly attain to,” was omitted by Pope, for reasons which appear in his Preface. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Beneath these verses some enthusiastic disciple of the author has added the brief epitaph inscribed by an admirer on the crabbed old poet's tombstone in Westminster Abbey,— "O, rare Ben Jonson." Old and New London Volume I Lord Herbert, of Cherbury, the first great English Deist, and Ben Jonson, the dramatist, were each his boon companions. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." The minor figures in Ben Jonson’s Comedies of Humours are mere personifications of exaggerated individual traits. A Manual of the Art of Fiction The word humorous has here a special sense, such as is used by Ben Jonson in his "Every Man in his Humor." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer It was a general opinion that Ben Jonson and Shakespeare lived in enmity against one another. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Ben Jonson," says our trusty authority, "in Every Man in his Humour, speaks of 'a new motion of the city of Nineveh, with Jonas and the whale, at Fleet Bridge.' Old and New London Volume I Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Ben Jonson says that it was customary for the bridesmaids to present the bridegroom next morning with a bunch of rosemary. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore This poem is found in the collection of miscellaneous pieces, by Ben Jonson, entitled "Underwoods." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Our discussion reminded me of Fuller's description of the wit-combats between Ben Jonson and Shakespeare at the "Mermaid." Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Hobbes in his time was a friend of, and, it is said, a translator for, Lord Bacon; and Ben Jonson, that ripe scholar, revised his sound translation of "Thucydides." Old and New London Volume I Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Sir Walter Raleigh founded a club at the "Mermaid Tavern," where, in addition to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, together with many other dramatists of note, spent their leisure hours. William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts Used in this sense by both Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer We remember Ben Jonson's lines under Shakespeare's portrait—— "Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life." Six Centuries of Painting Well, to-day we shall see where he was born and bred,—where Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth all visited.” John and Betty's History Visit A country booby boasting of the numerous acres he enjoyed, Ben Jonson peevishly told him, "For every acre you have of land, I have an acre of wit." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. We know that Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson visited him at New Place, and it is a tradition that their visits were celebrated in convivial fashion. William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts Indeed, it is stated, on the authority of Ben Jonson, that one little child perished in the flames. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning And there’s ‘Oh, Rare Ben Jonson,’ right there on the wall; I’ve always heard of that. John and Betty's History Visit Selwyn has a chaplain and parasite, one Dr. Warner, than whom Plautus, or Ben Jonson, or Hogarth, never painted a better character. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Two months later the poet entertained Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson at New Place. William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts Ben Jonson, master of dignified declamatory drama, was the greatest of the post-Shakespeare school. War Letters of a Public-School Boy For the same edition he also wrote the following lines for the portrait reproduced in this volume, which it is safe to regard as the Shakespeare Ben Jonson remembered: Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning As an actor he made no impression, although he continued to appear in subordinate parts, and played in Ben Jonson's "Sejanus" at its production in 1603, when he was forty years old. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Ben Jonson could repeat all he had ever written and many volumes he had read, as could Niebuhr, the historian. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character They live; Calderon's people, like Ben Jonson's, move. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 And there was one Ben Jonson, and a Master Suckling, though he was not quite sure about his dainty conceits. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up and asked him why he was so melancholy. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The historical play of "Sir Thomas Wyatt" can only be fitly described by using the favorite word in which Ben Jonson was wont to condense his critical opinions,—"It is naught." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 In this book is this note written by Ben Jonson himself. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance "The Spanish Ben Jonson" would be a happier title, if one feels obliged to compare everything with something else. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The writer wonders that any man should prefer coffee to canary, and refers to the days of Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ben Jonson. All About Coffee Ben Jonson loved to take "mine ease in mine inn," and Dr. Johnson declared that a seat in a tavern chair was the height of human felicity. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Ben Jonson had many quarrels with him, both literary and personal, and mentions one occasion on which he beat him, and took away his pistol. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The couplet quoted above was written up in the Apollo Room at the Devil Tavern, Temple Bar, where Ben Jonson's club, the "Apollo Club," used to meet. Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The play is imitated in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Ben Jonson has frequent allusions to it, and almost all the sixteenth-century writers have something to say about it; but Shakespeare never names the herb, or alludes to it in any way whatever. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down; aye, and Ben Jonson, too. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning He was among the few men whom Ben Jonson said he loved. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Ben Jonson has managed to introduce Broughton into some of his plays. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Professor Hales quotes an example of it from Ben Jonson's Catiline, IV, v. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Ben Jonson separates them in the same way— "Bring rich Carnations, Flower-de-luces, Lillies." The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Peck attributes the song to Ben Jonson, but we know not on what foundation. Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Horace had been a colonel; and from Æschylus, who fought at Marathon, to Ben Jonson, who trailed a pike in the Low Countries, the list of martial civilians is a long one. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Among our dramatists, Ben Jonson is conspicuous by the number of copies of his own performances which he presented to royal and noble personages or to private friends. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time In the summer of 1618 Scotland received a visit from the famous Ben Jonson. The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor Ben Jonson speaks of it as an article of food— "The thresher . . . feeds on Mallows and such bitter herbs." The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare And thou must not be forgotten, "O rare Ben Jonson!" for whom a single sentence doth suffice. The Buccaneer A Tale There is undoubtedly a great deal of indelicate writing in Fletcher and Massinger, and more than might be wished even in Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, who are comparatively pure. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) In this aisle I was going to say lies, but more correctly stands the body of Ben Jonson, who is buried in an upright position. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Whether Taylor's "Penniless Pilgrimage" really did interfere with, and prevent the publication of Ben Jonson's 'Foot Pilgrimage' would now be difficult to say. The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor And the word was so used in and after Shakespeare's time, as by Ben Jonson— "A pill as small as a pease." The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Let us show what a Masque was like by describing one of Ben Jonson's. The History of London A line must be drawn, we conceive, between artists of this class, and those poets and novelists whose skill lies in the exhibiting of what Ben Jonson called humors. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) This story put me in mind of Ben Jonson goeing throw a church in Surrey, seeing poore people weeping over a grave, asked one of the women why they wept. A Book About Lawyers Ben Jonson may be suspected of a sneer when he congratulates Drayton on thus outdoing Homer, as he had previously outdone, or at least rivalled, Virgil, Theocritus, Ovid, Orpheus, and Lucan. The Battaile of Agincourt And nearly all the poets of that time spoke in the same strain, with the exception of Ben Jonson and the two Fletchers. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare It was in such a theatre as this and with such scenery that the immortal plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were acted. The History of London Until the end of the eighteenth century Shakespeare not only failed to gain any special fame in England, but was valued less than his contemporary dramatists: Ben Jonson, Fletcher, Beaumont, and others. Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Well, said Ben Jonson, I will send you an epitaph to write upon his tomb, which was— 'God works wonders now and then, Here lies a lawyer an honest man.' A Book About Lawyers A fine copy of verses, printed opposite the frontispiece of that volume, was reprinted among the pieces called Underwoods in the 1641 folio of Ben Jonson's Works. Raleigh Ben Jonson said that Shakspere "wanted art"; the highest appellate court decided that "Lear" was a greater work than Euripides or Sophocles ever produced. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The most beautiful of those which remain are to be found in Ben Jonson's works. The History of London Ben Jonson appears, from an entry at Stationers' Hall on the 2nd of October 1623, to have intended to make a translation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Ben Jonson was accustomed to saunter beneath the elms of Lincoln's Inn; and Steele—alike on 'open' and 'close' days—used to frequent the gardens of the same society. A Book About Lawyers We learn from Izaak Walton that Ben Jonson was recommended to Raleigh while he was in the Tower, by Camden. Raleigh To his contemporaries he must have seemed deficient in originality, at least as compared with Lilly, or Marlowe, or Ben Jonson, or Beaumont and Fletcher. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant One single play remains to be mentioned, both because of its intrinsic merit, and because of the controversy which has arisen respecting the question of priority between it and Ben Jonson's Alchemist. A History of Elizabethan Literature Some think that Ben Jonson wrote these scenes; others, that they are too good to be by any one but Shakespeare. William Shakespeare Ben Jonson, as we are informed by Drummond of Hawthornden, wrote “a Discourse of Poesy both against Campion and Daniel;” but the discourse was never published. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age This is converting learning into a bricklayer, and would have come with a better grace from Ben Jonson than from Sam. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 Actual sunrise had certainly nothing to do with the technical commencement of the day in Ben Jonson's time. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The celebrated conversations noted by the host have been the very centre battle-ground of all fights about Ben Jonson's character. A History of Elizabethan Literature Careful and impressive speaking and thoughtful, restrained gesture were qualities which Shakespeare and Ben Jonson praised. William Shakespeare Ben Jonson was buried at Westminster, probably on account of the large fee demanded for a full-sized grave. Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. This is clearly at direct issue with Ben Jonson, whose introduced phrases, "pleaded nonage," "wardship," "pupillage," &c., seem to smack too much of legal technology to countenance the supposition of poetic license. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at six o'clock, and not, as Professor De Morgan supposes, "probably a certain sunrise." Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Now, Ben Jonson's estimate of Shakespere in prose and verse is on record in more places than one, and is as authentic as the silly stories of his envy are mythical. A History of Elizabethan Literature Ben Jonson "loved the man," and says that "he was, indeed, honest and of an open and free nature." William Shakespeare When told that Shakspeare had never blotted a line, Ben Jonson—no mean critic, and no unfriendly one—wished he had "blotted a thousand." Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The well-known epitaph of the celebrated Countess of Pembroke, the sister of Sir Philip Sidney, has been generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc As used by Ben Jonson and Swift, it is expressive of contempt. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It was only when the study of Shakespere became a favourite subject with persons of more industry than intelligence in the early eighteenth century, that a singular fabric of myth grew up round Ben Jonson. A History of Elizabethan Literature "I have little doubt," adds Mr. Collier, "that the lines are genuine, as well as many other songs and poems attributed to Ben Jonson, Sir W. Raleigh, H. Constable, Dr. Donne, J. Sylvester, and others." Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc How is it old Ben Jonson hath it? A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Ben Jonson devised a masque entitled "Love's Welcome" for the royal amusement, and there was such feasting and show that it cost between fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds. The Dukeries Lord Holland doubted whether the word 'Cash' was a legitimate English word, though, as Irving remarked, it is as old as Ben Jonson, there being a character called Cash in one of his comedies. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc He died in 1637, and the last of the many stories clustering round his name is the famous one of the inscription, "O rare Ben Jonson!" A History of Elizabethan Literature In Ben Jonson’s comedy, The Magnetic Lady, the parson compelled to form a hasty wedding asks— “Have you a wedding ring?” Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture Ben Jonson working as a bricklayer with his book in his pocket: Wm. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 He also published some of Ben Jonson's works. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters And because of this failure, we do not know the symptoms shown by the poet after the traditional "merrymaking with Ben Jonson and Drayton," when later gossips say he "drank too much." Shakespeare's Family Of no two contemporary men of letters in England can it be said that they were, intellectually speaking, so near akin as Ben Jonson and George Chapman. A History of Elizabethan Literature A certain degree of soul, as Ben Jonson reminds us, is indispensable to keep the very body from destruction of the frightfulest sort; to 'save us,' says he, 'the expense of salt.' Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. "Rhyme them to death, as they do rats in Ireland," is a line in one of Ben Jonson's comedies; this will explain Rosalind's humorous allusion. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Ben Jonson's rules are "As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his shot." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The play selected was Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," in which Charles Dickens acted Captain Bobadil. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The first of these is Ben Jonson, whose high reputation in other ways has somewhat unduly damaged, or at least obscured, his merits as a prose writer. A History of Elizabethan Literature I think of Ben Jonson's experience of the greatest of all writers. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete "Ben Jonson, Goldsmith, and those fellows," he asked, "lived in a degenerate age, didn't they?" American Sketches 1908 This is a very common expression for afraid, and though thought low, is a true archaism of our language, as seen in Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Ben Jonson. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On another day the knight took them to the play on the other side of the river, where they saw a comedy of Ben Jonson's. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The most famous incidents of his life are the visit that Ben Jonson paid to him, and the much discussed notes of that visit which Drummond left in manuscript. A History of Elizabethan Literature Hark the frank music of the elder age— Ben Jonson's giant tread sounds ringing up the stage! The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete We may still echo without hypocrisy the words of Ben Jonson, "Money never made any man rich, but his mind." American Sketches 1908 I say intentionally such; for many of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays, and the greater part of Ben Jonson's comedies, are farce plots. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher In his contemporary, Ben Jonson, we do have the type of the young man bent on getting scholarship as the best thing possible to him. Montaigne and Shakspere All, without exception, show the influence in different ways of Ben Jonson and of Donne. A History of Elizabethan Literature Ben Jonson was born here, and lived here in his childhood. The Strand District The Fascination of London "Come," writes Ben Jonson in "The Poetaster," "I love bully Horace." American Sketches 1908 Ben Jonson would himself have rejected such a plea:— “For he knew, poet never credit gain'd By writing truths, but things, like truths, well feign'd.” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Did not Ben Jonson, in his young hard days, bear arms very manfully as a private soldado there? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The tragedies have Ben Jonson's labour without his force, the comedies his coarseness and lack of inspiriting life without his keen observation and incisive touch. A History of Elizabethan Literature Ben Jonson and Algernon Sidney are the only independent authorities for the calumny. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Among the collaborators of Dekker at this time was Ben Jonson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 —Ben Jonson We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature The literary character of the masque developed into the compositions of Ben Jonson, and culminated in Milton’s Comus. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide After Spencer was killed in a duel by Ben Jonson in 1598, his widow continued to be a protégé or pensioner of Henslowe's for some years. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Ben Jonson considered him his 'father' in literature: ''Twas he that polished me.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Ben Jonson loved the 'durne weed,' and describes its every accident with the gusto of a connoisseur. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce In the next age, and in their own country, Ben Jonson took occasion at the very moment when Shakespeare was producing his masterpieces, to lament the total decay of poetry in England. Poems: New and Old His ability soon made itself felt, and in his earlier days he was the secretary of Bacon, and the friend of Ben Jonson and Lord Herbert of Cherbury. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Ben Jonson,—as shall later be shown,—in Every Man out of his Humour, casts similar slurs at Shakespeare's provincial origin. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Ben Jonson was associated incidentally in the work. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Ben Jonson facetiously makes these professors boast of being able to take three whiffs, then to take horse, and evolve the smoke—one whiff on Hounslow, a second at Staines, and a third at Bagshot. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The poet Burns, 'Rare Ben Jonson,' Goethe, Walter Scott, Byron, and Lamartine,—all were born of women remarkable for their vivacity and brilliancy of language. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother His "Comus" and "Arcades" had rivalled the masques of Ben Jonson. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 What things," wrote Beaumont in his Letter to Ben Jonson— "What things have we seen Done at the 'Mermaid'! The History of "Punch" Ben Jonson is said to have acted as his governor abroad. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography But Decker's and Ben Jonson's works abound in allusions to tobacco, its uses and abuses. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The cautious Ben Jonson, when his erstwhile taproom roisterer, Will Shakespeare, was dead, defied "insolent Greece or haughty Rome" to show his superior. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In any case it was, in Shakespeare's time, frequented by the chief writers of the day, amongst them Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Carew, Donne, and Shakespeare himself. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 My conceit of his person," says Ben Jonson, "was never increased towards him by his place or honours. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Burre published several works for Ben Jonson; and out of that circumstance has been constructed the statement that Jonson superintended the publication of the History for Ralegh. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Ben Jonson, of all our early dramatic writers, most frequently alludes to the practice of smoking. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Yet, in the words of the conspirator in Ben Jonson's "Catiline," it was but "a cast at dice in Fortune's hand" that it might have been a great defeat, Clive was astonishingly, grotesquely out-numbered. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Some of the projects then put forward, and believed in, surpass in senseless extravagance anything satirized by Ben Jonson. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end," Ben Jonson tells us. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 According to Ben Jonson he also delivered to him now or later 'the meaning of the Allegory in papers.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The drift of Chester’s crabbed verse is not clear, nor can the praise of perspicuity be allowed to the appendix to which Shakespeare contributed, together with Marston, Chapman, Ben Jonson, and ‘Ignoto.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles They are almost universally attributed to Ben Jonson, and are included amongst his poems. Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. In the reign of George the First such a mania attacked England much more fiercely than it had done even in the days of Ben Jonson. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I I ought to have read Berkeley, you say; just as I ought to have read Spenser, Ben Jonson, George Eliot, Victor Hugo. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women First, foremost, and enough, the evidence of Ben Jonson that he had "little Latin and less Greek"; then Shakespeare had as much Greek as Jonson would call some, even when he was depreciating. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I O! that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles If only we had space here to assign to the Erasmus of the Colloquies his just and lofty place in that brilliant constellation of sixteenth-century followers of Democritus: Rabelais, Ariosto, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Ben Jonson! Erasmus and the Age of Reformation His comedy was not in the least like the bold, broad, healthy, Aristophanic humor of Ben Jonson; the two stand better in contrast than in comparison. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The word is used by Spencer and Ben Jonson. King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre Alas! the list of works by 'rare Ben Jonson' now lost to us, it is feared, for ever, is quite a lengthy one. The Book-Hunter at Home His lack of exact scholarship fully accounts for the ‘small Latin and less Greek’ with which he was credited by his scholarly friend, Ben Jonson. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Portrait of Ben Jonson.—Ritson, the well-known antiquary, possessed an original painting of Ben Jonson. Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Since the days of Ben Jonson and until the days of Sheridan there was no one who could fairly be compared with him. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "Away! you talk like a foolish mauther"— says Restive to Dame Pliant in Ben Jonson. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It is that Johnson's Dictionary is not, as is generally supposed, the work of Ben Jonson, but of Samuel Johnson, the son of a Lichfield bookseller. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 Ben Jonson credits ‘Titus Andronicus’ with a popularity equalling Kyd’s ‘Spanish Tragedy,’ and internal evidence shows that Kyd was capable of writing much of ‘Titus.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The fire which destroyed Ben Jonson's MSS. undoubtedly consumed many of his printed books, but examples from his library, with 'Sum Ben Jonson' inscribed, are sometimes met with. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Montaigne was dashed off in just a fortnight, while Beaumont and Fletcher, Marlowe, Greene, Webster and Ben Jonson took him exactly 37-1/2 days. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914 Ben Jonson on the other hand—perhaps more than any other Lyly's spiritual heir—wrote nearly all his comedies in prose. John Lyly Aubrey records that Ben Jonson "acted and wrote, but both ill, at the Green Curtain, a kind of nursery or obscure playhouse somewhere in the suburbs, I think towards Shoreditch or Clerkenwell." Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration On the opposite page lines by Ben Jonson congratulate ‘the graver’ on having satisfactorily ‘hit’ the poet’s ‘face.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles We passed one corner house on the shutters of which some "infanteers" had chalked the inviting saucy sign, "Ben Jonson's Café." Pushed and the Return Push Even when written by such a man as Ben Jonson, the words, except in the lyrics, are of almost no importance. Milton But Ben Jonson gives us an unmistakeable caricature of him under the delightfully appropriate name of Fastidious Brisk in Every Man out of His Humour. John Lyly The most notable of these are the comments of his friend and contemporary, Ben Jonson. The Facts About Shakespeare Ben Jonson was, at the end of the sixteenth century, engaged in a fierce personal quarrel with two of his fellow dramatists, Marston and Dekker. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles And the same may be said of Addison and Fielding, of Lamb and Hazlitt, of Sterne and Bacon and Ben Jonson, and all the members of their goodly fellowship. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation A comparison of Ben Jonson’s epigram with the Greek epitaph, will show that directness is much more than this. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The first part of this volume was obviously collected by a Scotchman, and it includes pieces by Ben Jonson, Wither, Dr. Donne, &c. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Ben Jonson, in his additions to the old Spanish Tragedy, gives fine imaginative interpretation of the wavering moods of meditation, irony, and frenzy with which Kyd had dealt only crudely. The Facts About Shakespeare In the prologue to ‘Troilus and Cressida’ which he penned in 1603, he warned his hearers, with obvious allusion to Ben Jonson’s battles, that he hesitated to identify himself with either actor or poet. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles An American literary journal once assured its readers that Congreve has a ‘niche in the Valhalla of Ben Jonson.’ Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation At Penshurst Spenser wrote part of his "Shepherd's Calendar," and Ben Jonson drank and rhymed and revelled in this stateliest of English manor houses. christmas in the hall. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries He brought forward illustrations from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Milton, Puritan, writers, Congreve, Cowper, and others, until he concluded with Hood, who he declared had first unfolded to the human mind the possibility of the pun. The Lady of the Ice A Novel This is given full and worthy expression in the fine verses which Ben Jonson contributed as a preface to the Folio. The Facts About Shakespeare Ben Jonson and Drayton—the latter a Warwickshire man—seem to have been Shakespeare’s closest literary friends in his latest years. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Why, heres our fellow Shakespeare puts them all downe, I,xi:2 and Ben Jonson too. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich Inigo Jones, who became architect to the Court in 1606, shared honours with Ben Jonson in the production of the Court masques, as did also Henry Lawes, the eminent musician. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries Ben begins: 'Here lies Ben Jonson, Who was once one—' Shakspeare concludes: 'That, while he lived, was a slow thing; And now, being dead, is a no-thing.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 And now, girls, I will finish by reciting to you the lines old Ben Jonson addressed to the pretty girls of his time, which form an appropriate ending to my remarks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Why, here’s our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down; aye, and Ben Jonson, too. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles A second design, in royal octavo white pine, and omitting the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Ben Jonson, and Herrick, is quoted at a hundred and fifty dollars. Second Book of Tales The speeches at "the barriers" were written by Ben Jonson. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries A glance over Ben Jonson, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, is enough to reveal their frank and easy method. Obiter Dicta Second Series Shakespeare, to be sure, wrote no drama on Elizabethan times in England; we must go to Heywood and Ben Jonson for the drama of his contemporary world. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Other sonnets to patrons are scattered through collections of occasional poems, such as Ben Jonson’s Forest and Underwoods and Donne’s Poems. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Humor, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I As Prince Charles he had taken part in the Court entertainments of Christmastide, and had particularly distinguished himself in Ben Jonson's masque, "The Vision of Delight." Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries I have known characters of this kind, which, in the way of childish ignorance and self-pleasing delusion, exceeded anything to be met with in Shakespeare or Ben Jonson, or the Old Comedy.’ Obiter Dicta Second Series Before us, for instance, are Ben Jonson and Milton. Westminster Abbey The two greatest prose-writers of the first half of the seventeenth century were Raleigh and Bacon; the two greatest poets were Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Nor must we forget that Ben Jonson lived and died in a house over the gate or passage from the churchyard to the old palace. Westminster The Fascination of London Pope had none of the grave purpose which makes us, at all events, partially sympathize with Ben Jonson in his quarrels with the poetasters of his day. Obiter Dicta Second Series This so much disgusted our veteran bard, that, like Ben Jonson, he could not conceal his chagrin in the preface. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 He was buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey; and the stone over his grave still bears the inscription, “O rare Ben Jonson!” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 |
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