A Jonson Sentence

Ben Jonson on the court culture:

"A man lives there, and in that divine rapture, that he will think himself in the ninth heaven for a time, and lose all sense of mortality whatsoever; when he shall behold such glorious (and almost immortal) beauties, hear such angelical and harmonious voices, discourse with such flowing and ambrosian spirits, whose wits are as sudden as lightening, and humorous as nectar; oh: it makes a man all quintessence, and flame, and lifts him up (in a moment) to the very chrystal crown of the sky, where (hovering in the strength of his imagination) he shall behold all the delights of the Hesperides, the insulae fortunatae, Adonis gardens, tempe or what else (confined within the amplest verge of poesie) to be mere umbrae, and imperfect figures, conferred with the most essential felicity of the court."

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