...MANY were the wit-combats betwixt him and BEN JONSON ; which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English manof-war : Master Jonson (like the...and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of hia wit and invention." Such is Thomas Fuller's wellknown description of the convivial intercourse...

...established by Sir Walter Raleigh1 ; and he adds, " whieh two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war : Master Jonson, like the...tack about, and take advantage of all winds by the quiekness of his wit and invention3." The simile is well chosen, and it eame from a writer who seldom...

...between him and Shakespeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas...

...between him and Shakespeare, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war. Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."i I before observed, that the pleasure we receive from wit is increased, when the two ideas...

...current in his own time, has preserved a memorial. " Many," he says, " were the wit-combates betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention."16 " Worthies, p. 126, A aa, ed. fol. — After reading the above passage of Fuller, how...

...Worthies " preserved by Fuller, who, speaking of Shakespeare, says, " Many were the wit-combates betwixt liam invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary...

...established by Sir Walter Raleigh ' ; and he adds, " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds by the quickness of his wit and invention1." The simile is well chosen, and it came from a writer who seldom said anything ill'. Connected...

...Many were the wit combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson. Which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. He died anno Domini 16 . . , and was buried at Stratford upon Avon, the town of his nativity....

...' were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Jonson, like the...advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.' This happy illustration could only have been founded on tradition, for Fuller belonged...

...líen Jonson, which two I behold Шее a Spanish great gallion and an English man-of-war ; — MasU-r 0 invention."66 We now come to perhaps the most remarkable literary notice of Shakespeare by a contemporary...