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Benjamin Jonson byl anglický dramatik pozdní renesance , jehož hry předjímají poetiku klasicistního dramatu. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. červen 1572 – 6. srpen 1637
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“Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice — almighty gold.”

Ben Jonson

Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, lines 1-2. Comparable to "The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold", John Wolcot, To Kien Long, Ode iv; "Almighty dollar", Washington Irving, The Creole Village.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.”

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist (1610), Act IV, scene vii

“Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.”

Ben Jonson

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

“Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse,—
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.
Death, ere thou hast slain another,
Learn'd and fair and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.”

Ben Jonson

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This epitaph is generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. It appears in the editions of his Works; but in a manuscript collection of Browne's poems preserved amongst the Lansdowne MS. No. 777, in the British Museum, it is ascribed to Browne, and awarded to him by Sir Egerton Brydges in his edition of Browne's poems.

“If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

Ben Jonson

VI, To Alchemists, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.”

Ben Jonson Catiline His Conspiracy

Catiline His Conspiracy (1611), Act III, scene ii

“As he brews, so shall he drink.”

Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour

Act ii, Scene 1
Every Man in His Humour (1598)

“Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike;
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.”

Ben Jonson

LXI, To Fool, or Knave, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“That old bald cheater, Time.”

Ben Jonson The Poetaster

The Poetaster (1601), Act I, scene i

“There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.”

Ben Jonson

XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“A good life is a main argument.”

Ben Jonson

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

“The burnt child dreads the fire.”

Ben Jonson

Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)

“Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.”

Ben Jonson

CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams

“Reader, look,
Not at his picture, but his book.”

Ben Jonson

To the Reader [On the portrait of Shakespeare prefixed to the First Folio] (1618), lines 9-10

“Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.”

Ben Jonson

That Women Are But Men's Shadows, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

Ben Jonson

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

“Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!”

Ben Jonson

XXIX, A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods