By the way, if you need an introduction to the language of the Elizabethan era and find Shakespeare daunting, Ben Jonson is a wonderful primer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play on Words] Reference

Men of Shakespeare's generation, such as Jonson, did not think him learned; nor did men of the next generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown] Reference

Nor are Colman and Jonson alone in their tribulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

And he may have had one in Jonson; at least he thought he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning] Reference

Fletcher, and Jonson; then came the King's Head; the October; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Ben Jonson has managed to introduce Broughton into some of his plays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference

Jonson appears, from an entry at Stationers 'Hall on the 2nd of October.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Jonson drank and rhymed and revelled in this stateliest of English manor houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference

Nor is it possible to explain why Jonson removed his patronage from the Mermaid in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Massinger and Jonson exist only in the early nineteenth-century editions of Gifford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Elizabethan actor whose playing was so humorous that it even won the praise of Jonson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Perhaps Jonson may have found the accommodation of the Devil more suited to his needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Jonson apart, there were no more ardent disciples of the ancients than Marlowe and Chapman.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Ben Jonson never penned a more delicate or classical compliment, albeit it halteth a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Jonson, the posthumous son of an impoverished gentleman-clergyman, was born in London in 1573.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Jonson, William read the main points of the play, which was lauded to the skies by all present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

Jonson addressed to the pretty girls of his time, which form an appropriate ending to my remarks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

Or is a copy extant of Horace's 'Art of Poetry' english'd by Jonson and published so late as 1640.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

But neither Jonson, Sandys, nor May has much to say with regard to the proper methods of translation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Theories of Translation] Reference

The most definite utterance of the group is found in the lines which Jonson addressed to May on his translation of Lucan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Theories of Translation] Reference

That this epitaph should be attributed to Jonson, may possibly have arisen from the following lines being confounded with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Jonson makes Iniquity declare that the 'prentice boys rob their masters and "spend it in pies at the Dagger and the Woolsack.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

From Jonson and Dryden to Goethe and Tennyson, there has been no great difference in the essentials of this estimate of the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

For indisputable witness we have that epistle which Francis Beaumont addressed to Jonson from some country retreat whither he and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Ben Jonson, whose knowledge of London inns and taverns was second, only to that of Pepys, evidently numbered the Three Cranes in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Jonson viewed his fellow-men, in the mass, with complete scorn, which it was one of his moral and artistic principles not to disguise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Jonson, this man of rare virtues presents one of the brightest examples of that class to which he belonged, the Scottish country-gentleman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Burbage, Jonson, Drayton, Florio, Field, Condell, Heming and Jo Taylor came down from London by special invitation to enjoy the hospitality of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference