Ben Jonson: An Celia (orig.: To Celia) übersetzt von Paula Stern, in: Komm leb mit mir, Silva-Verlag Iserlohn, 1947, S. 21
(Original:"Drink to me only with thine eyes, // And I will pledge with mine; // Or leave a kiss within the cup // And I´ll not ask for wine."
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“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
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)
“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)
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)
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
“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)
Quelle: To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare (1618), Lines 27 - 33
“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.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
“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
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
The Touchstone of Truth (1624), lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
“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
XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme, lines 1-12
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)
“Though the most be players, some must be spectators.”
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Timber: or Discoveries
