...he fails to present life completely is shown in these lines, in which he defines his mission : — " My strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humor of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." Since the world needs building up rather...

...he fails to present life completely is shown in these lines, in which he defines his mission: — " My strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humor of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity." Since the world needs building up rather...

...here chance to behold himself, Let him not dare to challenge me of wrong; For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em:...to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humor of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity. Comparison of this passage of aggressive comment...

...here chance to behold himself, Let hi™ not dare to challenge me of wrong; For, if he shame to have his follies known, First he should shame to act 'em:...to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humor of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity. Comparison of this passage of aggressive comment...

...about the way they develop them, and their work is still readable. Jonson's influence was supreme: my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with...humour of such spongy souls As lick up every idle vanity.1 And following his lead, many a scribbler went about the town rampant for humors, until years...

...Bobadilla is morally corrosive in Briske and company. The dramatist's role, as Asper tells us, is "to ceaze on vice, and with a gripe / Squeeze out the humour of such spongie natures, / As licke vp euery idle vanitie" (Induction, 11. 144—46). The violence of the language...

...5249 Every Man in His Humour I do honour the very flea of his dog. 5250 Every Man out of His Humour if she's fair, betrayed. 6145 'Mirti to Octavia' In...sing, This gold, my dearest, is an useful thing. I .E 5251 Every Man out of His Humour Blind Fortune still Bestows her gifts on such as cannot use them....

...here chance to behold himself, Let him not dare to challenge me of wrong ; For, if he shame to have his follies known, First, he should shame to act 'em...Squeeze out the humour of such spongy souls As lick up everv idle vanity." If we could determine which play was first represented, and could be certain that...

...Make my brain fruitful, to bring forth more objects, Worthy of their serious and intentive eyes. .... my strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with...such spongy souls, As lick up every idle vanity." For nearly forty years he anatomized the vices, major and minor, of his city, striking at sham, avarice,...

...Jonson was not the man to write for an audience ; he wrote at them. He was by nature a satirist. " My strict hand Was made to seize on vice, and with a gripe Squeeze out the humour of such spongy natures As lick up every idle vanity." He was no smiling comfortable humorist ready to appease the...