...somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feele it not, he able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. — Ben Jonson From "Discoveries." There cannot be one colour of the mind ; an other of the wit....

...Latter-day Neoclassicist 215 VII BALLAD WRITERS — Artless Story-tellers . . 224 INDEX 239 ". . . though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another, yet he must exercise all." BEN JONSON. "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was...

...themselves, and in the (18) expression, revelation, disclosure of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath...and able for one kind of writing than another, yet ye must exercise all. For as in an instrument, so in style, there must be a (19) harmony, concord,...

...somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne" (8:616). 6I Jonson by no means abandons the Latin canon; his text is full of references to it,...

...conviction that poetry, as envisioned by Aristotle, is the art of imitation is epitomized in the sentence, "Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a man's study, the praise of quoting another man fitly" (HS 8: 616-17). Take the wisdom of the ages, and hammer it into a new form appropriate to one's own...

...find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an authority above their own. Sen Jonson. LXXXI. TRUE HAPPINESS. " I SHOULD not like that sort of life," said Lillo. " I should like...