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" scaped world's and flesh's rage, And if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace, and asked, say, Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry. "
The North American Review - Page 603
1896
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Ben Jonson: l'homme et l'oeuvre (1572-1637).

Maurice Castelain - 1907 - 1012 pages
...'? To have.so soon scaped world's, and flesh's rage, And if no other misery.'yet age ! Rest in soft peace, and asked, say here doth lie BEN JONSON his best piece of Poetry : For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much '...
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English Poems: The Elizabethan age and the Puritan period (1550-1660)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 570 pages
...envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say, "Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry; 10 For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such As what he loves may never like too much."...
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Ben Jonson

George Gregory Smith - 1919 - 328 pages
...spoils the impression he would give. When we select these lines as among the best — Best in soft peace, and asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — we commend the ingenuity of the conceit, but little else. Jonson is happier when kinship...
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A Life of William Shakespeare

Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 pages
...them child of my right hand, and joy. My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. . . . Rest in soft peace; and asked, say: "Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry." The removal of his family to Stratford may have caused the dramatist to purchase there in...
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Elizabethan Lyrics from the Original Texts

Norman Ault - 1928 - 566 pages
...— To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age ? Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry : For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such As what he loves may never like too much....
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An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich

Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age? Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry; For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such As what he loves may never like too much."...
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English Renaissance Poetry: a Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton To ...

460 pages
...envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much....
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Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science

Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 pages
...Jonson's conceptual connection between the concept of a son and the concept of a poem: "Rest in soft peace, and asked, say here doth lie / Ben Jonson, his best piece of poetry." We might look at George Herbert's "Time is the rider that breaks youth." We might select whatever...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age? Rest in soft Her Nest with the Plough 62 Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beast poetry; For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much....
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Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

Philip Hobsbaum - 1996 - 220 pages
...envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's, and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry. For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much....
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