and Samuel Johnson's 'famous sentence
recorded
by Boswell under June
19, 1784: "Talking of the comedy of _The Rehearsal_, he said: 'It has
not wit enough to keep it sweet.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
2.
'In our and old Jonson's dialect, man has lost the _soul_ out of
him; and now, after the due period,--begins to find the want of
it.... Man has lost his soul, and vainly seeks antiseptic salt.'
(Simpson in _N. & Q._, 9th Ser. 4. 347, 423.)
To the same Latin source Professor Cook (_Mod. Lang. Notes_,
Feb., 1905) attributes the passage in _Rabbi Ben Ezra_ 43-45:
What is he but a brute
Whose flesh has soul to suit,
Whose spirit works lest arms and legs want play?
and Samuel Johnson's 'famous sentence
recorded
by Boswell under June
19, 1784: "Talking of the comedy of _The Rehearsal_, he said: 'It has
not wit enough to keep it sweet.
'"'
=1. 6. 97 the walks of Lincolnes Inne.= One of the famous Inns
of Court (note 3.1.8). It formerly pertained to the Bishops of
Chichester (Stow, _Survey_, ed. 1633, p. 488a). The gardens 'were
famous until the erection of the hall, by which they were curtailed
and seriously injured' (Wh-C.). The Tatler (May 10, 1709, no. 13)
speaks of Lincoln's Inn Walks.
