If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.


Poetaster; or, His arraignment. Sejanus, his fall. Volpone; or, The fox. Epicoene; or, The silent woman (ed. 1756)

Ben Jonson Quotes

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility...

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility...

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility...

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility...