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... Ben Jonson's censure , that he " writ no language . " A poem that stands midway between Spenser and the late medieval work of Chaucer's school- such as Hawes's Passetyme of Pleasure -was the induction contributed by Thomas Sackville ...
... Ben Jonson's censure , that he " writ no language . " A poem that stands midway between Spenser and the late medieval work of Chaucer's school- such as Hawes's Passetyme of Pleasure -was the induction contributed by Thomas Sackville ...
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... Ben Jonson both quote from Euphues in their plays , and Shakspere was really writing Euphuism when he wrote such a sentence as " " Tis true , ' tis pity ; pity ' tis ' tis true . " That knightly gentleman , Philip Sidney , was a true ...
... Ben Jonson both quote from Euphues in their plays , and Shakspere was really writing Euphuism when he wrote such a sentence as " " Tis true , ' tis pity ; pity ' tis ' tis true . " That knightly gentleman , Philip Sidney , was a true ...
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... Ben Jonson's famous epitaph . Underneath this sable herse 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's famous epitaph . Underneath this sable herse 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 ...
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... Ben Jonson said that he was 66 a good honest man , but no poet , " wrote , how- ever , one fine meditative piece , his Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland , a sermon apparently on the text of the Roman poet Lucretius's famous passage ...
... Ben Jonson said that he was 66 a good honest man , but no poet , " wrote , how- ever , one fine meditative piece , his Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland , a sermon apparently on the text of the Roman poet Lucretius's famous passage ...
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... Ben Jonson's phrase , " Marlowe's mighty line . " Jonson , however , ridiculed , in his Discoveries , the " scenical strutting and furious vociferation " of Marlowe's hero ; and Shakspere put a quotation from Tamburlaine into the mouth ...
... Ben Jonson's phrase , " Marlowe's mighty line . " Jonson , however , ridiculed , in his Discoveries , the " scenical strutting and furious vociferation " of Marlowe's hero ; and Shakspere put a quotation from Tamburlaine into the mouth ...
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