 | Ben Jonson - 2000 - 588 pages
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 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...Poesy (1668). said of the Bard of Avon: "He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." Quite a different application of the god's name occurs when René, the page of Lady Blanche in Balzac's... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Drama - 2004 - 468 pages
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 | Judith Woolf - Academic writing - 2005 - 188 pages
...native wood-notes wild'.33 John Dryden called him 'the very Janus of Poets; he wears, almost everywhere two faces: and you have scarce begun to admire the one e're you despise the other'.34 Samuel Johnson thought of him as 'the poet who holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 380 pages
...any precedent Age. Never did any Author precipitate himself from such heights of thoughts to so low expressions, as he often does. He is the very Janus...begun to admire the one, e're you despise the other [...] . Let us therefore admire the beauties and the heights of Shakespeare, without falling after... | |
 | John Dryden
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 | Ben Jonson
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He is the very Janus of poets ; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. 
