...live, And we have wits to read and praise to give . . . Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe, He was not of an age, but for all time! (Ben Jonson, To the Memory of W. Shakespeare.) Stay, passenger, why goest thou by so...

...Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When like Apollo he came forth to warm Our...

...eminence for his tiny island kingdom as well as for his friend and rival: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time . . . The stake that the English have since had in the dramatist's reputation, as given...

...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When like Apollo he came forth to warme...

...Shakespeare's contemporary, the eminent poet and playwright Ben Jonson: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! Indeed, Jonson's words have proven prophetic. Across the centuries and across all national...

...Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain! thou hast stress, slave, hast thou? DROMIO OF EPHESUS. Your worship's wife, my mistress a for all time; And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm...

...book doth live . . . In equally extravagant fashion, Jonson went on: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! There can be no doubt why Heminges and Condell invited Jonson to contribute such verses...

...of literary contexts, and the declaration of the triumph of English: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! (1l. 41-3) In writing his elegy for Shakespeare, Jonson established the model for the...

...rival as one who shone brighter than all other dramatists and poets: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time . . . (41-3) But universality is a tricky concept: often what we believe to have comprehensive...

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