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Old and New London
… and the Old Palace, lived in his later years "rare Ben Jonson," and here he died; so that two of the greatest of …
Survey of London
… who is sometimes stated to have been the stepfather of Ben Jonson (see footnote to p. 22). Fowler's house was afterwards …
Old and New London
… and was buried in a small chapel adjoining his house. Ben Jonson, who was his intimate friend, discovered that there …
Old and New London
… "Pimlico," which existed there; it is referred to by Ben Jonson, Dodsley, and others in plays of the seventeenth … from the fact that it was in one of them that Ben Jonson killed in a duel Gabriel Spenser, the player. 2 Nearly …
Old and New London
… Seint Thoms, And then our host began his hors arrest." Ben Jonson, in The New Inn, makes mention of the spot in the …
Survey of London
… productions. Among these were performances of plays by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher in 18456 by a company, the …
Old and New London
… This poet of the great Elizabethan race was one of Ben Jonson's great rivals. He thus rails at Shakespeare's special … of eylet-holes, like the cover of a warming-pan?" Ben Jonson's manner in a play-house is thus sketched by … speak generously of the old poet; for he thus sums up Ben Jonson's merits in the following lines: "Good Horace! No! My …
Old and New London
… in support of his statement, several passages from Ben Jonson, Samuel Pepys, and Wycherley. It will be remembered …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… by a bolt or, feathered argent'. It is referred to by Ben Jonson in his play of The New Inn, or the Light Heart: 'The … (1529), No. 5410. Arundel MSS. Mus. Brit. 26, f. 71 b. Ben Jonson, Complete Works, 1631, p. 724, Act I, Sc. 1, 11. 3, 9, …
Old and New London
… Inn." In James I.'s time the Round, as we find in Ben Jonson, was a place for appointments; and in 1681 Otway …