He heard, in a vague, far-off voice, men talking: "We'll catch old Abe on our next trip ef we go on like thiseh, Ben?" "I reckon.

I'm blamed if I will!" "Look yere, Ben, do you see that road off there to the right?" "Yes, I do, but I don't see that it's different from any other road.

" "By mitey, Ben, you are a general, suah."

As the restoration of the Stuarts to the throne of England inaugurated a new period in English criticism, during which English critical theories were largely influenced by French criticism, this study will stop short of this, restricting itself to the years between the publication of Thomas Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique in 1553 and that of Ben Jonson's Timber in 1641.

She taught them the crafte of endytynge Whiche vyces ben that sholde avoyded be Whiche ben the coulours gay of that connynge Theyr dyfference and eke theyr properte Eche thynge endyte how it sholde poynted be Dystynctyon she gan clare and dyscusse Whiche is Coma Colym perydus.

She taught them the crafte of endytynge Whiche vyces ben that sholde avoyded be Whiche ben the coulours gay of that connynge Theyr dyfference and eke theyr properte Eche thynge endyte how it sholde poynted be Dystynctyon she gan clare and dyscusse Whiche is Coma Colym perydus.

Here the "humours," to anticipate Ben Jonson, give names not only to the characters of the play, but to the plays themselves.[206] As adopted by the drama, the orator's view that people of a certain age and rank are likely to behave in certain fashions was perverted to the dramatical law of decorum, that people of certain age or rank must on the stage act up to this generalization of what was characteristic.

As Spingarn points out, Ben Jonson was first led to classicism in poetical theory by the example of Sidney.

When Ben Jonson writes in his Timber "For the Fable and Fiction is, as it were, the forme and Soule of any Poeticall worke or Poeme" the change had come.

" "Nay, dearest Mrs. Bloomfield, this is not necessarily true; or, if true, need it be so openly said?" "Se non e vero, e ben trovato.

Jesu, my sovereign Saviour, Almighty God, there ben no mo: there are no morethou Christ, thou be my governor; [art all in all.

I have followed a manuscript in the handwriting of Ben Jonson.[70]

But, although even Ben Jonson addresses him as "the delight of Phoebus and each Muse," we are too far beyond the power of his social presence and the influence of his public utterances to feel that admiration of his poems which was so largely expressed during his lifetime.

Ben Jonson, however, born in 1574, who may be regarded as the sole representative of learning in the class, has left, amongst a large number of small pieces, three Poems of Devotion, whose merit may not indeed be great, but whose feeling is, I think, genuine.

There was no professional bias to cause the stream of Ben Jonson's verses to flow in that channel.

About the same age as Ben Jonson, though the date of his birth is unknown, I now come to mention Thomas Heywood, a most voluminous writer of plays, who wrote also a book, chiefly in verse, called The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, a strange work, in which, amongst much that is far from poetic, occur the following remarkable metaphysico-religious verses.

John Fletcher, likewise a dramatist, the author of the following poem, was two years younger than Ben Jonson.

Ponderous Ben Jonson himself, when he takes to song, will sing in the joy of the very sound; but great men have always so much graver work to do, that they comparatively seldom indulge in this kind of melody.

"Ben a-settin' traps for 'em, eh?" Royal nodded as he went rattling down the driveway.

But he must pardon me, if I have that veneration for ARISTOTLE, HORACE, BEN.

Those Propositions which are laid down in my Discourse, as Helps to the better Imitation of Nature, are not mine, as I have said; nor were ever pretended so to be: but were derived from the authority of ARISTOTLE and HORACE, and from the rules and examples of BEN.

If BEN. JOHNSON himself, will remove the scene from Rome into Tuscany, in the same Act; and from thence, return to Rome, in the Scene which immediate follows; Reason will consider there is no proportionable allowance of time to perform the journey; and therefore, will choose to stay at home.

Of this last error, the French are seldom guilty, because the thinness of their Plots prevents them from it: but few Englishmen, except BEN.

[Footnote 2: As where Ben Jonson is able to say,"Men may securely sin, but safely never.

Ben Jonson said, it was a pity Shakspeare had not blotted more, for that he sometimes wrote nonsense,and cited in proof of it the verse "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause.