Jonson

Famous quotes containing the word jonson:

    Have you seen but a bright lily grow
    Before rude hands have touch’d it?
    Have you mark’d but the fall of the snow
    Before the soil hath smutch’d it?
    Have you felt the wool of the beaver,
    Or swan’s down ever?
    Or have smelt of the bud of the brier,
    Or the nard in the fire?
    Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
    O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “A lord, it cried, buried in flesh and blood,
    And such from whom let no man hope least good,
    For I will do none; and as little ill,
    For I will dare none.” Good Lord, walk dead still.
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    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)