Literary Epochs Chapters On Noted Periods of Intellectual Activity
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" It has been already said that Jonson's character was unamiable. Drummond, whose guest he used to be, has told us what sort of a man he found him, from a social point of view : " A great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especi- ally after drink, which is one of the elements in which he lived ; a dis- sembler of ill parts, which reign in him ; a bragger of some good ...that he wanted ; thinketh nothing well done but what either he himself or some of his friends hath said or done. He is 6 82 THE ELIZABETHAN ERA. passionately kind and angry, careless either to gain or keep ; vindictive, but if he be well answered at himself, interprets best sayings and deeds often to the worst. He was for any religion, as being versed in both ; oppressed with fancy, which hath ever mastered his reason a general dis- ease in many poets ; his inventions are smooth and easy, but above all he excelleth in a translation.
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