 | Walter Hamilton - Poets laureate - 1879 - 346 pages
...following candid sentences : — " Ben Jonson was a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend...which is one of the elements in which he lived ; a disa dissembler of the parts which reign in him ; a hragger of some good that he wanted ; thinketh... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1880 - 344 pages
...we read the quarrels. ' Ben,' said Drummond, ' was a great lover and praiser of himself; a condemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend...jealous of every word and action of those about him.' Such a man could well attack Marston and Dekker in the ' Poetaster,' and the last could well return... | |
 | Edinburgh - 1881 - 552 pages
...described. According to Drummond, " he was a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and despiser of others; given rather to lose a friend than a jest;...elements in which he lived; a dissembler of the parts that reign in him ; a bragger of some good that he wanted, thinking nothing well done but what either... | |
 | Jacob Feis - 1884 - 274 pages
...is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to loose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and action...after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) : a dissembler of ill parts which reigne in him ; a bragger of some good that he wanteth ;... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...tragedy) ; The Sad Shepherd (a pastoral). " HK is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word or action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth)... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...praiser and lover of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend thana jest; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially when ™ drmk, which is one of the elements in which he lived; a dissembler of the ill parts that reign... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Authors, English - 1886 - 218 pages
...these general impressions of his guest : ' He is a great lover and praiser of M himself; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend...after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) ; a dissembler of ill parts which reign in him, a bragger of some good that he wanteth ; thinketh... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - English literature - 1886 - 382 pages
...was a great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to losse a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especiallie after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) ; a dissembler of ill parts... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1888 - 232 pages
...impressions of his guest : ' He is a greaj lover and praiser of M himself; a contemner and scoruer of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest...after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) ; a dissembler of ill parts which reign in him, a bragger of some good that he wanteth ; thinketh... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1888 - 632 pages
...died in 1649. lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to losse a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especiallie after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) ; a dissembler of ill parts... | |
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He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth... 
