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)