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Ben Jonson, właściwie Benjamin Jonson – angielski dramaturg, poeta i aktor.

✵ 21. Czerwiec 1572 – 6. Sierpień 1637
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Ben Jonson: Cytaty po angielsku

“There shall be no love lost.”

Ben Jonson Every Man out of His Humour

Every Man out of His Humour (1598), Act II, scene 1. Compare: "There is no love lost between us", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter xxxiii

“Calumnies are answered best with silence.”

Ben Jonson Volpone

Volpone (1606), Act II, scene ii

“I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.”

On William Shakespeare
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.”

Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)

“That Shakespeare wanted Art.”

Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)

“It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.”

Act IV, scene 1
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)

“Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act iii, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?”

Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade / Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?", Alexander Pope, in To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

“Courses even with the sun
Doth her mighty brother run.”

The Gipsies Metamorphosed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast.”

Epicene, or The Silent Woman (1609), Act I, scene i; a translation from Bonnefonius

“The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And, though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.”

LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods

“I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.”

Ben Jonson Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy

Bartholomew Fair (1614), Act I, scene vi

“Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act ii, Scene 3. Compare: "Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place", Alexander Pope, Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.”

Ben Jonson The New Inn

Lovel, Act IV, Scene iii
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)

“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

“It was a mighty while ago.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act i, Scene 3
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“Though the most be players, some must be spectators.”

The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries

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