ben jonson in English

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(1572-1637) English playwright and poet

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1. 12 But although Shadwell saw himself as a follower of Ben Jonson, he was writing in a different era.

2. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, 1816, William Gifford (editor), The Works of Ben Jonson, Volume 4, page 88, He shall have a bel, that's Abel; / And by it standing one whose name is Dee, / In a rug gown, there's D, and Rug, that's drug: / And right Anenst him a dog snarling er, / There's

3. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, 1816, William Gifford (editor), The Works of Ben Jonson, Volume 4, page 88, He shall have a bel, that's Abel; / And by it standing one whose name is Dee, / In a rug gown, there's D, and Rug, that's drug: / And right Anenst him a dog snarling er, / There's

4. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist the most Affablest creature, sir! so merry! 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge 'He's comfortable in bed — the best bed

5. Next he discourses upon the brain, which he Allegorizes as the king of our microcosm, served by entertaining such nourishing courtiers as Ovid and Ben Jonson

6. DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER BEN JONSON Outwardly the latter method was successful; in two months the converts were so numerous that they had to be baptized by Aspersion

7. 1616, Ben Jonson, “On Poet Ape”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: From Brokage is become so bold a thief, / As we, the robbed, leave rage, and pity it

8. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow! he brought vp Horace giuing the Poets a pill, [xi: 3] but our fellow Shakespeare hath giuen him a purge that made him Beray his credit

9. 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men, And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale, With the brown bowl, and charg'd in Bragget stale […] Synonyms

10. For his leisure, you are commanded to the greater Briefness, as his place is of greater discharges and cares. DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER BEN JONSON This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the Briefness of its life

11. Gass on Ben Jonson's Commonplace Book "When Ben Jonson was a small boy, his tutor, William Camden, persuaded him of the virtue of keeping a Commonplace book: pages where an ardent reader might copy down passages that especially pleased him, preserving sentences that seemed particularly apt or wise or rightly formed and that would, because they were written …