 Yet I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth, Than in the glad possession, since I gain No common way; I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with plough-shares, fat no beasts, To feed the shambles; have no mills for iron, Oil, corn, or...  Notes and Queries - Strana 1191857Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Ben Jonson - 1962 - 248 str.
...in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature. Volpone. True, my beloved Mosca. Yet, I glory J0 More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession, since I gain No common way: I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares; fat no... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 str.
...speak well, are two things. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die. 5264 Votpone + possesslon. 5265 Volpone Give 'em words; Pour oil into their ears, and send them hence. 5266 Volpone... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 630 str.
...'aurea Venus' in Virgil and Ovid 22 dumb god: silence is golden 30 Volp. True, my beloved Mosca. Yet, I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession; since I gain No common way: I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares; fat no... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 220 str.
...in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature. Volpone. True my beloved Mosca. Yet I glory 30 More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession, since I gain No common way: I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares; fat no... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 str.
...(5.1.16). Volpone seconds this, remarking that he actually enjoys the trickery more than the profits: 'I glory / More in the cunning purchase of my wealth / Than in the glad possession' (1.1.30-2). But while Jonson succeeds in forcing us wryly to acknowledge our own avarice and culpability,... | |
 | Richard Harp, Stanley Stewart - 2000 - 238 str.
...cleverness of their devices seem to mean more to them than the actual financial gain. Volpone insists, "I glory / More in the cunning purchase of my wealth / Than in the glad possession" (30-2). So long as they observe these rules, Volpone and Mosca, however self-indulgent they may be,... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 str.
...Ben Jonson is much more subtle and on the surface more varied; but when, for instance, Volpone says, 'I glory / More in the cunning purchase of my wealth / Than in the glad possession', we recognize the note that is common to all his active characters, the note of intellectual selfcongratulation... | |
 | Michael Neill - 2000 - 556 str.
...(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966), pp. 186, 190. 21. Cf. Ben Jonson, Volpane, 1.1.30-3: I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth, Than in the glad possession, since I gain No common way. 22. Laslett, pp. 26—7. 23. In effect Overreach and Tapwell propound a... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 str.
...the same time remains typical by virtue of his lust for pleasure and delight in playing games: Yet, I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth, Than in the glad possession: since I gain No common way; I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares; fat no... | |
 | Roger E. Backhouse, Bradley W. Bateman - 2006 - 291 str.
...ROGER E. BACKHOUSE AND BRADLEY W. BATEMAN 1 A cunning purchase: the life and work of Maynard Keynes Yet I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession Ben Jonson, Volpone PORTRAIT OF THE ECONOMIST AS A YOUNG MAN On 21 June 1921, Maynard Keynes delivered... | |
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