jonson in English

noun

family name; Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English playwright and poet

Use "jonson" in a sentence

1. In my world, one does not write plays, Jonson.

2. Menu for Byronian The in Byron Bay on 58a Jonson St

3. Jonson was his political heir as leader of the Nationalist Party.

4. 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

5. Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.

6. 12 But although Shadwell saw himself as a follower of Ben Jonson, he was writing in a different era.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. When Jonson Asseverates that wise speaking needs restraint, his language simultaneously concedes predilection to "wander" beyond the known and legitimate, informing even the "wise" tongue;

13. 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

14. 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

15. ‘Both were Autodidacts, who went, perfunctorily, to school and college while pursuing their education by their own means and under their own instruction.’ ‘Though neither attended university, Jonson was a famous autodidact whose classical learning (including his knowledge of …

16. ‘Both were Autodidacts, who went, perfunctorily, to school and college while pursuing their education by their own means and under their own instruction.’ ‘Though neither attended university, Jonson was a famous autodidact whose classical learning (including his knowledge of …

17. View in context Shortly after the accession of King James, Jonson, Chapman , and Marston brought out a comedy, 'Eastward Hoe,' in which they offended the king by satirical flings at the needy Scotsmen to whom James was freely awarding Court positions.

18. 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

19. 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 …

20. When Jonson Asseverates that wise speaking needs restraint, his language simultaneously concedes predilection to "wander" beyond the known and legitimate, informing even the "wise" tongue; it registers a potential for innovatory or transgressive speaking, admits that lying within--not, typically for the early modern period, the female, but--the male body, is a heterogeneity that necessitates

21. Contemporary critics of Joyce's Chamber Music (1907) saw in these early poems "something of the spirit of Waller and Herrick," "a Courtliness that reminds one of Herrick and Lovelace" and "the lucid sensibility of Jonson and Herrick." Ezra Pound observed, "the wording is Elizabethan, the metres at times suggesting Herrick" (Robert Deming, ed., James Joyce: The_Critical Heritage (Lon: Routledge

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