Epicoene - Ben Jonson - Książki - Independently Published - 9798580578903 - 20 stycznia 2021
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Epicoene

Ben Jonson

Epicoene

Book Excerpt: ...to either university, though Fuller says that he was "statutably admitted into St. John's College, Cambridge." He tells us that he took no degree, but was later "Master of Arts in both the universities, by their favour, not his study." When a mere youth Jonson enlisted as a soldier, trailing his pike in Flanders in the protracted wars of William the Silent against the Spanish. Jonson was a large and raw-boned lad; he became by his own account in time exceedingly bulky. In chat with his friend William Drummond of Hawthornden, Jonson told how "in his service in the Low Countries he had, in the face of both the camps, killed an enemy, and taken opima spolia from him;" and how "since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversary which had hurt him in the arm and whose sword was ten inches longer than his." Jonson's reach may have made up for the lack of his sword; certainly his prowess lost nothing in the telling. Obviously Jonson was brave, combative, and not averse to ta...

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 20 stycznia 2021
ISBN13 9798580578903
Wydawcy Independently Published
Strony 226
Wymiary 216 × 280 × 12 mm   ·   535 g
Język English  

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