...the note that Goethe had sounded and to have applied it to ourselves. If there is any " Ben Jonson: Soul of the Age! The Applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! '42. To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us' in...

...Volpone Mischiefs feed Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. 5276 To William Shakespeare' Soul of the Age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! 5277 'That Women are but Men's Shadows' Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to By it, it will...

...flourishes on the possible abuses of praise, Jonson grandiloquently launched forth on Shakespeare: Soul of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder...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,...

...Bradley, for instance). 14 CHAPTER ONE Neo-Classicism Introduction • I, therefore will begin. Soule 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 lye A little further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment,...

...pronouncement, in the verses composed for the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare's works, he praised Shakespeare as 'Soul of the age! / The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage'; went beyond Meres's previous poetic pantheon by ranking Shakespeare above Chaucer, Spenser, and Beaumont...

...proof against them; and, indeed, Above the ill fortune of them or the need. I, therefore, will begin. or Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill...of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this wer Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument...

...forecast of the place he was destined to take in the culture of all humanity. Jonson calls Shakespeare the "soul of the age, / The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage." Shakespeare is the pride and glory of England: Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast one to show, To whom...

...or the need . . . (Henry hands the book to Philip.) PHILIP (Reading): I, therefore will begin. Soule 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 lye A little further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment,...

...historically pticeless "To the memory of my beloved, The Author" contributes to this project: "Soule of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage! / My Shakespeare" (reprinted in Riverside, 97). Obedient to the First Folio's promotion of the theatre, Jonson traces...

....it's me. . .William. JONSON What? SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare. JONSON Shakespeare? (lowers weapon) Oh. . .Soul of the Age! The Applause! Delight! The Wonder of our Stage! SHAKESPEARE snatches the foil from JONSON and turns it on him. SHAKESPEARE Alright pal, get back to...