Jonson

Famous quotes containing the word jonson:

“Do but consider this small dust, here running in the glass,
By atoms moved.
Could you believe that this the body was
Of one that loved?
And in his mistress’ flame playing like a fly,
Turned to cinders by her eye?
Yes, and in death as life unblest,
To have’t expressed,
Even ashes of lovers find no rest.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

“‘Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 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)