 Would burst a man to name ? Sub. And all these named, Intending but one thing: which art our writers Used to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him — Because the simple idiot should not learn it. And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge...  The Best Elizabethan Plays ... - Page 160edited by - 1895 - 609 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson - 1756 - 434 pages
...writers Us'd to obfcure their art. Mam. Sir, fo I told him, Becaufe the fimple idiot fhould not learn it, And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge Of the ./Egyptians writ in myftic fymbols ? Speak not the fcriptures oft in parables ? Are not the choiceft fables of the poets,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 pages
...Us'd, to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him, Because the simple idiot should not learn it, And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge...That were the fountains, and first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories ? .1 urn. 1 urg'd thut, . And deary to him, that Sysiphus was damn'd... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 696 pages
...writer» Us'd, to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him, Because the simple idiot should not leam it. to spare JONSOM-I THE ALCHEMIST. Tbat were the fountains, and first springs of wisdom, Wrapt in perplexed allegories... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 pages
...Us'd, to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so I told him, Because the simple idiot should not learn it, And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge...Egyptians writ in mystic symbols? Speak not the scriptures oh in parables ? Arc not the choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains, and first springs... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pages
...LTs'd to obscure their art. Mam. Sir, so 1 told him, Because the simple idiot should not learn it, And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the knowledge...writ in mystic symbols ? Speak not the Scriptures oit in parables ? Are not the choicest fables of the poets, That were thr fountains and first springs... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 556 pages
...believe, but other names for mercury ; zernich ii auripigment, and heautarit — I know not what. » Sub. Was not all the knowledge Of the ./Egyptians...of wisdom, Wrapp'd in perplexed allegories? Mam. I urg'd that, And clear'd to him, that Sysiphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only because... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 pages
...Used to obscure their art. " Mam. Sir, so I told him — Because the simple ideot should not learn it, And make it vulgar. " Sub. Was not all the knowledge...springs of wisdom, Wrapp'd in perplexed allegories ? " The profound knowledge which Jonson had of this pretended art, shows how much his studies had surpassed... | |
 | 1876 - 1164 pages
...rare old comedy of the " Alchemist," hath it, " Speak not tbe Scriptures oft in parables; Are not tbe choicest fables of the poets, That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapped in perplexed allegories." I shall take to task another miserable " reviewer," who has seen... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - 1860 - 468 pages
...Writers Us'd to obscure their Art. Mam. Sir, so I told him, Because the simple Idiot should not learn it, And make it vulgar. Sub. Was not all the Knowledge Of the ^Egyptians writ in mystick Symbols! Speak not the Scriptures oft in Parables? Are not the choicest Fables of the Poets,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1869 - 384 pages
...literal one; in the latter, the symbolic was always the original signification of every ceremony. t " Was not all the knowledge Of the Egyptians writ in...That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom, Wrapped in perplexed allegories?" BEN JONSON, Alchemist, act ii. sc. i. was the symbolic in former... | |
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