 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...(epigram 128) and his tribute to William Camden, the great scholar and Jonson's old teacher, as the one "to whom I owe / All that I am in arts, all that I know" (epigram 14). The Epigrams are thus not only a collection of satirical portraits (eg, "On Court- Worm,"... | |
 | Ben Jonson - British drama - 1998 - 566 pages
...studied under the tutelage of William Camden, 'to whom', as Jonson was later to say in an epigram, 'I owe | All, that I am in arts, all that I know'. In Jonson's case, 'all that I know' consisted of learning so prodigious that in English letters it... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - Drama - 2000 - 238 pages
...never forgot what he owed his scholarly mentor and remembered him gratefully in his poetry as "Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe / All that I am in arts, all that I know" (Epig. 14.1-2). To be sure, the education that the poet received at Westminster, though very solid,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Literary Collections - 2003 - 130 pages
...two: that doubly am got free, From my disease's danger, and from thee. XIV To William Camden Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in...owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes. Than thee the age sees not that thing more grave, More high, more holy, that she more would crave.... | |
 | Glynne Wickham - Art - 2005 - 328 pages
...his like. What hope then had Ben, educated at Westminster under the tutelage of William Camden, . . . most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (viii, 31) determined to model his plays on classical precept, The lawes of time, place, persons, he... | |
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Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes. 
