 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 ページ
...Jonson expressed his admiration of Camden in the following words: Camden, most reverend head . . . to whom my country owes The great renown and name wherewith she goes. And Peacham, referring to Sir Robert Cotton, declared that "not only Britain, but Europe herself is... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe - 1993 - 400 ページ
...in the poems he addressed to them. For Camden he wrote that heartfelt and generous tribute: 'Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe,/ All that I am in arts, all that I know...'. "' Jonson's play Cynthia's Revels, a satire on the Elizabethan court published in 1601, the year of... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 ページ
...parison) in celebratory poems, like his panegyric to William Camden, his teacher at Westminster: 'Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe / All that I am in arts, all that I know' (Epigrams 14). Camden was famous for his work on British history, and Jonson celebrates his learning... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 ページ
...(epigram 128) and his tribute to William Camden, the great scholar and Jonson's old teacher, as the one "to whom I owe / All that I am in arts, all that I know" (epigram 14). The Epigrams are thus not only a collection of satirical portraits (eg, "On Court- Worm,"... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1998 - 566 ページ
...studied under the tutelage of William Camden, 'to whom', as Jonson was later to say in an epigram, 'I owe | All, that I am in arts, all that I know'. In Jonson's case, 'all that I know' consisted of learning so prodigious that in English letters it... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 ページ
...never forgot what he owed his scholarly mentor and remembered him gratefully in his poetry as "Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe / All that I am in arts, all that I know" (Epig. 14.1-2). To be sure, the education that the poet received at Westminster, though very solid,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 130 ページ
...two: that doubly am got free, From my disease's danger, and from thee. XIV To William Camden Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in...grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave. What name, what skill, what faith hast thou in things! What sight in searching the most antique springs!... | |
 | Glynne Wickham - 2005 - 328 ページ
...his like. What hope then had Ben, educated at Westminster under the tutelage of William Camden, . . . most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (viii, 31) determined to model his plays on classical precept, The lawes of time, place, persons, he... | |
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Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know (How nothing's that); to whom my country owes The great renown and name wherewith she goes; Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she... 
