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Excerpt from The Works of Ben Jonson: With a Biographical Memoir, by William Gifford In Every Illan in his Humour, and in the Prologue to it, which breathes a similar spirit, we find strong traces of the ennobling idea, which J onson had already formed of poetry in general, and of the true and dignified office of the Dramatic Muse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.