Ben Jonson Quotes on Legacy
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Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.
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Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
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He was not of an age, but for all time.
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Sweet Swan of Avon!
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I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
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That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.