The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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... Ben Jonson's Bricklaying - Enactments against Beards - Oliver Cromwell , More , Hale , and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn - Lincoln's Inn Fields , or Square- Houses there built by Inigo Jones - Pepys's Admiration of the ...
... Ben Jonson's Bricklaying - Enactments against Beards - Oliver Cromwell , More , Hale , and other eminent Students of Lincoln's Inn - Lincoln's Inn Fields , or Square- Houses there built by Inigo Jones - Pepys's Admiration of the ...
Page 226
... Ben Jonson rejects these literary accounts of the poet's bricklaying as ' figments ' . And he brings his author's own representations to prove that he left the business , not for the University , but the Continent . As this writer has ...
... Ben Jonson rejects these literary accounts of the poet's bricklaying as ' figments ' . And he brings his author's own representations to prove that he left the business , not for the University , but the Continent . As this writer has ...
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... [ Ben Jonson's ] ; but methought not so well done or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be . Before the play was done , it fell such a storm of hayle , that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise , and all the house in a ...
... [ Ben Jonson's ] ; but methought not so well done or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be . Before the play was done , it fell such a storm of hayle , that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise , and all the house in a ...
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