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... Jonson would have been hanged but for the intervention of some player : Tucca tells Horace ( i.e. , Ben Jonson ) " Thou art the true arraign'd poet , and shouldst have been hanged , but for one of these part - takers , these charitable ...
... Jonson would have been hanged but for the intervention of some player : Tucca tells Horace ( i.e. , Ben Jonson ) " Thou art the true arraign'd poet , and shouldst have been hanged , but for one of these part - takers , these charitable ...
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... Jonson , bricklayer . " This letter is signed " Phillippe Heglowe " by the ignorant scribe who was employed to write it for Henslowe : we mention this fact , because in " The Memoirs of Edward Alleyn , ” p . 51 , it looks like a ...
... Jonson , bricklayer . " This letter is signed " Phillippe Heglowe " by the ignorant scribe who was employed to write it for Henslowe : we mention this fact , because in " The Memoirs of Edward Alleyn , ” p . 51 , it looks like a ...
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... Jonson . We may be permitted , before we go farther , to no- tice two or three important points in the biography of Ben Jonson , that have not been previously ascer- tained . Having been born in 1574 , he is supposed to have been ...
... Jonson . We may be permitted , before we go farther , to no- tice two or three important points in the biography of Ben Jonson , that have not been previously ascer- tained . Having been born in 1574 , he is supposed to have been ...
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... Jonson himself spelt it , but Johnson , as he allowed it to stand on the title - page of his " Bartholomew Fair , " 1631 , and in some other places . The clerks , or whoever made the entries , gave the ordinary ortho- graphy of the name ...
... Jonson himself spelt it , but Johnson , as he allowed it to stand on the title - page of his " Bartholomew Fair , " 1631 , and in some other places . The clerks , or whoever made the entries , gave the ordinary ortho- graphy of the name ...
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... Jonson was in his forty - ninth year : whether any children were the fruit of this union we know not ; but , after a lapse of eleven years , during which Ben Jonson produced nothing for the stage , we find him , in 1625 , again turning ...
... Jonson was in his forty - ninth year : whether any children were the fruit of this union we know not ; but , after a lapse of eleven years , during which Ben Jonson produced nothing for the stage , we find him , in 1625 , again turning ...
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Page 67 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 27 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 145 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 56 - Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 27 - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 77 - In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal the day and year first above written.
Page 85 - James, by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland...
Page 53 - But let me not forget one chiefest part Wherein beyond the rest, he moved the heart, The grieved Moor, made jealous by a slave Who sent his wife to fill a timeless grave, Then slew himself upon the bloody bed. All these and many more with him are dead, Thereafter must our poets leave to write.
Page 95 - Kemp, as wel in the favour of her majesty, as in the opinion and good thoughts of the generall audience. Gabriel, Singer, Pope, Phillips, Sly, all the right I can do them is but this, that, though they be dead, their deserts yet live in the remembrance of many. Among so many dead, let me not forget one yet alive, in his time the most worthy, famous Maister Edward Allen.
Page 145 - Elizabeth, my well beloved wife, for and during the term of her natural life; and from and immediately after her decease...