 | 1856 - 508 pagine
...precisely the kind of character that we should expect in a man so ill at ease in his conscience. " A great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink,... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pagine
...conversations, and appended to these a sketch of the man. Drummond thus describes him : — " He is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner...;) a dissembler of ill parts which raigne in him, a * Published in 1662 (Warwickshire), p. 126. bragger of some good that he wanteth ; thinketh nothing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1858 - 568 pagine
...Jonson was a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemuer and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he lived; a dissembler of the parts which... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pagine
...[Jonson] is a great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and sconier of others; given rather to lose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth) ; a dissembler of ill parts... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pagine
...have stuck like a barbed arrow in the rear of his departing guest ever since: " He [Jonson] is a great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner of others; given rather to lose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1858 - 574 pagine
...to them, however, is Drummond's report on Jonson himself, in these terms: ' Ben Jonson was a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1858 - 512 pagine
...have stuck like a barbed arrow in the rear of his departing guest ever since: " He [Jonson] is a great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner of others; given rather to lose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and aetion of those about him (especially after drink,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pagine
...the following character of Ben Jonson to the world : — M " For," he says, " Ben Jonson was a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink,... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pagine
...was ' a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scoffer of others ; rather given to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink, which was one of the elements in which he lived ; a dissembler of the parts... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1863 - 460 pagine
...Jonson's character was, on the whole, a tolerably correct one. It runs as follows : — ' He is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink,... | |
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He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and Scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend, than a Jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink) which is one of the Elements in which he liveth... 
