Ben Jonson Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Exercise, Men

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

• As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Style, Matter

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.133

• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

  Ben Jonson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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