Jonson

Famous quotes containing the word jonson:

“With pictures full, of wax and of wool,
Their livers I stick with needles quick;
There lacks but the blood to make up the flood.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“How so ere, my man
Shall reade a piece of virgil, tacitus,
livie, or some better booke to us,
Of which wee’ll speake our minds, amidst our meate;
And Ile professe no verses to repeate:”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“Not lived; for life doth her great actions spell,
By what was done and wrought
In season, and so brought
To light: her measures are, how well
Each syllab’e answered, and was formed how fair;
These make the lines of life, and that’s her air.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)