Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dougstaples@gmx.com (LionelEdwards) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Ben Jonson born (11-6-1572) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:26:48 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <8dad3d697c42ed77777a834dd369ec5e@www.novabbs.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="4146215"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="RCtv0vBD20+/ouRI12+nk24d9y+Z94Bz5a1GbuXMba0"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$tiUFFFhE3tBKKCwDQQ.0WuE2ENbbkj6WyEA0163dIx9FqFu38DlcC X-Rslight-Posting-User: d25cf7b1a5e17facdba0f576df80901e69e346a8 Bytes: 2211 Lines: 46 HenHanna wrote: > On 6/11/2024 3:42 AM, Ross Clark wrote: >> Runner-up to Will Shakes in the "England's Got Playwrights" finals. > not Marlowe? >> >> Jonson on language (briefly excerpted): >> >> A wise tongue should not be licentious and wandering... >> >> How much better is it to be silent, or at least to speak sparingly! >> >> Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. >> >> [That's familiar -- who is he quoting there? Or is it him?] > isn't that what Romeo says? --> No... > it's prob Socrates. >> >> These are from a collection (a "commonplace book", not published in his >> >> lifetime) called: >> >> "Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed >> out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion >> of >> >> the times" > why is it entitled Timber??? ..."as we are commonly used to call the infinite mixed multitude of growing trees a wood, so the ancients gave the name of Sylvæ—Timber Trees—to books of theirs in which small works of various and diverse matter were promiscuously brought together.”