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"It was a mighty while ago."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3.
Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Hang sorrow! care 'll kill a cat."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3.
Every Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"As he brews, so shall he drink."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Every Man in his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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"Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Every Man in his Humour. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"It must be done like lightning."
Ben Jonson / Every Man in his Humour. Act iv. Sc. v.
Every Man in his Humour. Act iv. Sc. v.
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"There shall be no love lost."
Ben Jonson / Every Man out of his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Every Man out of his Humour. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast."
Ben Jonson / Epicoene; Or, the Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. 1.
Epicoene; Or, the Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,-- Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart."
Ben Jonson / Epicoene; Or, the Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. 1.
Epicoene; Or, the Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"That old bald cheater, Time."
Ben Jonson / The Poetaster. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Poetaster. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"The world knows only two,--that 's Rome and I."
Ben Jonson / Sejanus. Act v. Sc. 1.
Sejanus. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression."
Ben Jonson / The Masque of Hymen.
The Masque of Hymen.
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"Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run."
Ben Jonson / The Gipsies Metamorphosed.
The Gipsies Metamorphosed.
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"Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live."
Ben Jonson / Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
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"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,--almighty gold."
Ben Jonson / Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I 'll not look for wine."
Ben Jonson / The Forest. To Celia.
The Forest. To Celia.
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"Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room."
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"Marlowe's mighty line."
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"Small Latin, and less Greek."
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"He was not of an age, but for all time."
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"For a good poet 's made as well as born."
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"Sweet swan of Avon!"
Ben Jonson / To the Memory of Shakespeare.
To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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"Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse,-- Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee."
Ben Jonson / Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke.
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke.
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"Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink."
Ben Jonson / Underwoods. An Epistle, answering to One that asked to be sealed of the Tribe of Ben.
Underwoods. An Epistle, answering to One that asked to be sealed of the Tribe of Ben.
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"Still may syllabes jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!"
Ben Jonson / Underwoods. Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme.
Underwoods. Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme.
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"In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be."
Ben Jonson / Underwoods. To the immortal Memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison. III.
Underwoods. To the immortal Memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison. III.
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"What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?"
Ben Jonson / Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet.
Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet.
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"What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life."
Francis Beaumont / Letter to Ben Jonson.
Letter to Ben Jonson.
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"Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine."
Robert Herrick / Ode for Ben Jonson.
Ode for Ben Jonson.
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