Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Masons and bricklayers can boast of Ben Jonson, who worked at the building of Lincoln's Inn, with a trowel in his hand and a book in his pocket... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 59
1860
Full view - About this book

An Account of the English Dramatick Poets: Or, Some Observations and Remarks ...

Gerard Langbaine - English drama - 1691 - 626 pages
...return to the Trade oŁ 'his Father-in-law; where he aflifted in the New Building of Lincoln* fnn, with a Trowel in his Hand, and a Book in his Pocket. But this Enghjh J/«ro,was not long before he found a M<ecenas and a Parus, to manumit him from an...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Ben. Jonson

Ben Jonson - 1756 - 526 pages
...maintenance, he returned to his father in a few weeks, and was employed in the new ftructure of Lincoln'sInn, with a trowel in his hand, and a book in his pocket. Mr. Wood tells us, that when he worked with his father, he was pitied by fome generous gentlemen, and...
Full view - About this book

The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1786 - 516 pages
...celebrated CAMEDEN; and Langbaine fays, he wrought with his father-in-law, on the fcene above-mentioned, " with a trowel in his hand, and a book in his pocket." Old.yj Oldys fpeaks of a picture of him, in the drefs and accoutrements of a bricklayer. It appears,...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher ..., Volume 1

Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...maintenance, he returned to his father in a few weeks, and was employed in the new structure of Lincohvs-Inn, with a trowel in his hand, and a book in his pocket. Mr. Wood tells us, that when he vtorked with his father, he was pitied by some generous gentlemen,...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 4

Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1831 - 400 pages
...profession for him. Though Ben, according to Dr. Fuller, wrought at the building of Lincoln's Inn, with a trowel in his hand, and a book in his pocket, he did not hesitate to satirize Jones himself for having touched the hand-saw and the plane. It may...
Full view - About this book

Lincoln's Inn; Its Ancient and Modern Buildings: With an Account of the Library

William Holden Spilsbury - 1850 - 350 pages
...early part of his life, assisting his father-in-law in his business, and working, as Fuller imagines, with a trowel in his hand, and a book in his pocket. The play of " Every Man out of his Humour" is dedicated by Ben Jonson to " the noblest nurseries of...
Full view - About this book

The National Review, Volume 6

1858 - 516 pages
...School, was destined to his stepfather's craft. It is told he worked in the building of Lincoln's Inn, with a trowel in his hand and a book in his pocket. But he was of those men who shoulder their way through the world as a giant does through a crowd. He...
Full view - About this book

National Review, Volume 6

Great Britain - 1858 - 528 pages
...School, was destined to his stepfather's craft. It is told he worked in the building of Lincoln's Inn, with a trowel in his hand and a book in his pocket. But he was of those men who shoulder their way through the world as a giant does through a crowd. He...
Full view - About this book

Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...poet. Masons and bricklayers can boast of Ben Jonson, who worked at the building of Lincoln's Inn, with a trowel in his hand and a book in his pocket, Edwards and Telford the engineers, Hugh Miller the geologist, and Allan Cunningham the writer and sculptor;...
Full view - About this book

Bentley's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1860 - 632 pages
...he is ' none of those that can suffer the benefits conferred upon his youth to perish with his age.' trade. Tradition asserts that some of the bricks now...fiend was at his elbow, whispering, ' Via, good Master Benjamin, rouse up a brave mind and run.' He took the fiend's advice. Drums and fifes were in Jouson's...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF