 Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning; solid, but slow, in his performances. Shakespeare, with...  The Works of William Shakespeare - Seite viiivon William Shakespeare - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 Seiten
...Ben Jonson; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-ofwar. Master Johnson, like the former, was built far higher in learning;...all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention. Such a word-picture as this is worth volumes of conjecture. After Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, the next... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1893 - 160 Seiten
...well-known and delightful record in Fuller's Worthies, where he tells of their many wit-combats: "Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." § 1 6. Hours of brilliant wit-combat in the London tavern did not cause Shakespeare to forget his... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 Seiten
...the wit-combats betwixt Shakespeare and Ben Jonson ; which two I behold like a great Spanish ga1l^on and an English man-of-war : master Jonson (like the...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." PAGE 118. — The text of this beautiful Scottish ballad is from the first authentic edition, inscribed... | |
 | James Walter - 1896 - 444 Seiten
...wit-combats betwixt him (Shakespeare) and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great ga'leon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." An anecdote from " Merry Passages and resolved at last.' ' I prithee what J ' sayes he. 1' faith, Ben,... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 Seiten
...possessed." — David Hume. " Many were the wit-combats betwixt him [Shakespeare] and Ben Jonson ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...winds by the quickness of his wit and invention." — Thomas Fuller, 1662. " I was yesterday invited to a solemn supper by Ben Jonson, where there was... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 Seiten
...FRIEND OF SHAKESPEARE. "Many were the wit-combats betwixt Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which two I beheld like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war....winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." — Fuller's Worthies {1662). MONG the galaxy of great dramatic poets which adorned the age of Elizabeth,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 Seiten
...Raleigh. " Many were the wit combats," says Fuller, "betwixt Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." After the success of " Every Man in his Humor," Jonson wrote, at pretty regular intervals, a series... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 Seiten
...all the art that was used upon him. " Many were the wit combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson. Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 1616 . . . and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity." If... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 704 Seiten
...particles of another. — " Many were the wit-combats betwixt him (Shakespeare) and Ben Jonson ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention." *> Here the analogy might be thus expressed : Jonson : wit-combats : : Spanish galleon : stately sailing.... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 Seiten
...particles of another. — " Many were the wit-combats betwixt him (Shakespeare) and Ben Jonson ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."5 Here the analogy might be thus expressed : Jonson : wit-combats : : Spanish galleon :... | |
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