Jonson

Famous quotes containing the word jonson:

“He threatens many that hath injured one.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)

“Let it not your wonder move,
Less your laughter, that I love.
Though I now write fifty years,
I have had, and have, my peers;
Poets, though divine, are men:
Some have loved as old again.
And it is not always face,
Clothes, or fortune gives the grace,
Or the feature, or the youth;
But the language, and the truth,
With the ardour and the passion,
Gives the lover weight and fashion.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks,
Or make the sun forget his motion!”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)