 | Terttu Nevalainen - 2006 - 194 lapas
...early seventeenth centuries that its abuse was made fun of in 'humours comedies', for instance, in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. In The Merry Wives, Corporal Nym's excessive use of the term is illustrated by the humor of lying,... | |
 | Jack Richardson - 2009 - 194 lapas
...motivation. Literary treatment of the humours is exemplified by several characters in Ben Jonson's plays 'Every Man in His Humour' and 'Every Man out of His Humour'. Ben Jonson i hymn a song or ode of praise, usually addressed to gods, but sometimes to abstractions... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1911 - 296 lapas
...wider sense than now, eg ' prevailing temper, cast of mind.' Cf. the titles of Ben Jonson's comedies, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. husbandry, III. 4. 25, 'care of, stewardship.' Husband= Icelandic htisbondi, ' master of a house,'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1970 - 432 lapas
...wider sense than now, eg 'prevailing temper, disposition.' Compare the titles of Ben Jonson's comedies, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour. Indirection, II. 1. 60, 'indirect means'; implying often 'dishonest practice, unfair dealing.' Cf.... | |
 | 314 lapas
...a humour. It was in this sense that the word was used by Ben Jonson in the titles to his two plays, Every Man in his Humour and Every Man out of his Humour, and the adjective humorous meant that a person was marked by this kind of humour, as in the title to... | |
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Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed. 
