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Definition of Benjamin Jonson
1. Noun. English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benjamin Jonson
Literary usage of Benjamin Jonson
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1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Gifford has remarked that there is a singular resemblance between Benjamin Jonson
and Samuel Johnson. Nothing can be more true ; and the similarity is ..."
2. Selections from the British Poets (1840)
"Benjamin Jonson. Benjamin Jonson. 1574-1637. FROM CYNTHIA'S BEVELS. QUEEN and
huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep; Seated in thy silver ..."
3. Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth by Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813)
"Benjamin Jonson, (Poet Laureat). I remember when I was a scholar at Trin. coll.
Oxon. 1646, I heard Dr. Ralph Bathurst (now deane of Welles) say, ..."
4. Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay by George Saintsbury (1886)
"Benjamin Jonson. Ben Jonson, who was Iwn at Westminster in 1574, and died there
in 1637, is not often thought of as ap*sse wnter. His Discoveries, however ..."
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