...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...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but disproportioned Muses; For, if I thought...

...Autobiography, 307. 17. Ben Jonson anticipates Auden's verses in "To . . . Shakespeare" (lines 22-24): "Thou art a monument without a tomb, / And art alive...live, / And we have wits to read and praise to give." 18. Yeats, "Adam's Curse," Poems, 80; Autobiography, 311. 19. See Aries, Hour of Our Death, 211. 20....

...probably suggested by Ben Jonson's tribute in the 1623 folio, which contains the striking compliment: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. It would be indeed surprising if Milton did not look at this and other commendatory poems in the First...

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...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...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. Ben Jonson, "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare" "The end of the matter;...

...is a thought expressed not only by himself but also by Ben Jonson (1573?1637), who wrote: (280) Thou art... alive still, while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. 6. Authors in the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries Having thus exploited Shakespeare (and Jonson)...

...further, to make thee a roome: Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe, And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 1 D Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe,/ To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe,' remarks...

...reminding us that Shakespeare (like his ancient predecessors) will remain "alive still, while [his] Book doth live, and we have wits to read [!], and praise to give." For, as Jonson famously observed, "He was not of an age, but for all time!" 14 Anthony Burgess expresses...

...will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: what crosses to ensue, — Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. Tint I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, — I mean, with great but disproportion'd Muses; For if...

...bid Beaumont lie A little futthet, to make thee a toom; Thou att a monument without a tomb, And att alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to tead, and pmise to give. That 1 not mix thee so, my bmin excuses: l mean with gteat, but disptopottioned,...