How To Use Jonson In A Sentence
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Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great gallion and an English Man of War: Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow in his performances.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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The sort of scholarship which predominated was textual scholarship, as exemplified by Percy Simpson's monumental edition of Ben Jonson.
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Every month Jonson aka Thornton goes out of his way to prove the truth of that, by demanding the RBA raise rates.
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Anaphora should not be confused with epanorthosis, the repetitious use of a particular term for emphasis: the word element in certain of Ben Jonson's poems, for example.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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Both return to early quartos of the plays in question, bypassing Jonson's magisterial - perhaps too magisterial - reworkings of them in his 1616 Folio: the plays that emerge are fresh, exuberant, and distinctly unfamiliar.
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'Sonat hic de nare canina littera'; and compare Ben Jonson, _English
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
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In their tragedies they become heavy without grandeur, like Jonson, or mistake the stilts for the cothurnus, as Chapman and Webster too often do.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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All players had to be competent dancers and singers, but dramatists like Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson replaced earlier short, rhymed verse with poetic drama.
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN 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.
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The drama is well conceived and executed, but here also he follows another poetical master, Ben Jonson.
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Shortly before this he distinguishes Donne ‘the master of metaphor’ from Jonson ‘the poet of metonymy for whom listing not yoking is at the core of his ethical vision’.
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There are cleverly inflected performances from Ellie Haddington and Catherine Cusack (as the dramatist's mean daughter) but the most rousing moments of the evening are supplied by Richard McCabe as a roistering Ben Jonson.
Women Beware Women; Bingo
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I do not regard Jonson's epigram precisely as a parody of Horace's satire - or at least not entirely as such.
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This is a chronological study of the rise and fall of the antimasque within Jonson's masques, and it focusses in particular on the form's political content in the more specific sense: its commentary on court intrigue and on royal policy.
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Little is known of Drayton's personal life, though dedications and epistles reveal his circle to have included such friends as Stow, Camden, Jonson, and W. Drummond.
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P. 21, l. 29, hoddy doddy.] -- A term of contempt, which occurs in B. Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act iv. sc.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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Ben Jonson, whose translation of Horace's _Art of Poetry_ is cited by Dryden as an example of "metaphrase, or turning an author word by word and line by line from one language to another," [395] is perhaps largely responsible for the mistaken impression regarding the earlier translators.
Early Theories of Translation
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To match Jones's visual effects Jonson wrote poetic dialogue of the highest order.
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Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.
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The best of them, Herrick and Carew, with Crashaw as a great thirdsman, called themselves "sons" of Ben Jonson, and so in a way they were; but they were even more sons of Donne.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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This notion of the contents of the Talmud was common in Jonson's time; it was the "aggadic" element of the Talmud, that is, the use of legend, anecdote, and parable to illustrate a point of law or a tradition or an episode in history that elicited the instant attention of Europeans.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3
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Jonson's fault that many of his successors did precisely the thing that he had reprobated, that is, degrade the humour: into an oddity of speech, an eccentricity of manner, of dress, or cut of beard.
Every Man in His Humor
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Though neither attended university, Jonson was a famous autodidact whose classical learning (including his knowledge of Greek) easily outstripped Shakespeare's.
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Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio.
Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare
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He kinged it in the coffee-house, then the fashionable place at which the wits gathered, as Jonson had in the tavern.
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Jonson and Wroth interacted socially, and Jonson is variably referred to as both Wroth's mentor and her patron.
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Elizabethan satirists, -- the vitriolic bitterness of Nash, the sententious profundity of Donne, the happy-go-lucky "slogging" of genial Dekker, the sledge-hammer blows of Jonson, the turgid malevolence of Chapman, and the stiletto-like thrusts of George
English Satires
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The sort of scholarship which predominated was textual scholarship, as exemplified by Percy Simpson's monumental edition of Ben Jonson.
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Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy entitled _Satiro-mastix_, where Jonson is called “Horace, junior.”
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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When Jonson wanted to attack individuals (Inigo Jones, Marston and Dekker, etc.) or social practices (the sensationalism of news-sheets, Puritan antitheatricalism, etc.), he generally left no doubt about what he was doing.
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Only once before, in the 1616 Jonson folio, had an English dramatist's plays appeared in collected form.
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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 (of 4)
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Jonson's plays challenged the audience to examine the impact of a society governed by deceit and subterfuge.
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The theatres of Shakesepeare's time resounded not just to his great tragedies and comedies but also to more satrical works by the likes of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, with their lively tales of bawds and coney catchers evoking the teeming life of the city.
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He may have come within the orbit of the literary set of which Jonson had been the leader.
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Jonson allows the head male character to be exceedingly great at his craft of deception.
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Now, Jonson sneers at the word 'brock' in a way not unfrequent with Shakspere himself, in regard to various words used by Jonson against him.
Shakspere and Montaigne
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Ben Jonson has let us into some of their secrets of adulteration -- the treatment of the leaf with oil and the lees of sack, the increase of its weight by other artificial additions to its moisture, washing it in muscadel and grains, keeping it in greased leather and oiled rags buried in gravel under ground, and by like devices.
The Social History of Smoking
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The Oxford English Dictionary cites the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson as the first person to use the word plagiary to designate literary theft -- and he was making a joke.
Periscope
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We know of Jonson's unseemly bodily figure, his 'ambling' gait, which rendered him unfit for the stage.
Shakspere and Montaigne
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Natalie Angier weighs in on the human proclivity for cursing in a lengthy essay in the NYT: "The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood
Science Project
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Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
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William Davenant was a godson of Shakespeare, and he and several of his fellow wits were "Sons of Ben"—drinking associates of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright.
Pens at the Ready
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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
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Coryate wrote in an extravagant and euphuistic style (‘He is a great and bold carpenter of words’, said Jonson), and was well known as an eccentric and amusing character; there are many references to him in 17th-cent. literature.
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The literary element was probably the most important component and among those who wrote texts for masques were Ben Jonson and John Milton.
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Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
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Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio.
Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare
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Arriving at the end of the masque, Caliban and his fellows effectively invert the form of the Jonsonian masque and with it Prospero's ability to control the terms of the marriage.
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He died there in the summer of 1627, and was succeeded as chronologer by Ben Jonson.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Jonson has run the gamut of hotel work, from porter to owner of a large chain of hotels.
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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.
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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Jonson's use of strict verisimilitude helps to facilitate yet another layer of deception by employing a fixed sense of time.
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(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in
English Past and Present
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(Ben Jonson, "Catiline", Act i., scene 1.) (3) I take "tepido busto" as the dative case; and, as referring to Pompeius, doomed, like Cornelia's former husband, to defeat and death.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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Jonson made his money from masques, which were stupendously expensive to put on at court.
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First of all Jonson was a classicist, that is, he believed in restraint and precedent in art in opposition to the prevalent ungoverned and irresponsible Renaissance spirit.
Every Man in His Humor
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Jonson, however, is far from being able to lay a claim to such dramaturgic merit.
Shakspere and Montaigne
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(Ben Jonson, "Catiline", Act i., scene 1.) (3) I take "tepido busto" as the dative case; and, as referring to Pompeius, doomed, like Cornelia's former husband, to defeat and death.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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Horace's satire and Jonson's epigram have proven similarly resistant to efforts at critical appreciation.
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Middleton and Jonson had held, of chronologer to the city of London, followed the King to Oxford to his loss, having previously had losses in
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The imitation of classical models was less common than on the Continent and, except for Jonson, no important writer paid strict attention to the rules humanist critics had formulated.
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Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN 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.
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He may have come within the orbit of the literary set of which Jonson had been the leader.
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He then became a Thames waterman, and increased his earnings by writing rollicking verse and prose; he obtained the patronage of Jonson and others, and diverted both court and city.
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He cites as evidence the earliest use of the term in a literary context, from one of Martial's epigrams (here in the translation by Ben Jonson).
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The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker -- and the best play to read as a sample of it _Eastward Ho! _ in which Marston put off his affectation of sardonical melancholy and joined with Jonson and Dekker to produce what is the masterpiece of the non-Shakespearean comedy of the time.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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In 1634, by the king's desire, Jonson's salary as chronologer to the city was again paid.
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Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion.
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Profumo is Italian for scent, which gives the fallen political star a whiff of Ben Jonson: he caught the heady intoxication of cheap perfume one summer’s night, and, though he swapped his evening dress for a hair shirt, he understood the smell could never be washed out.
Making the Best of a Sticky Wicket