| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild...the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild...represented all the passions very lively^ but above allj love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...that " Beaumont was not concerned in above and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much belter; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees,...the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild...the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imi-tated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild...repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; ,whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in iv 'partees, no poet before them eould paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
| James Mason - 1809 - 566 pages
...drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." This panegyric may sufficiently account for the preference given... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...the passions very lively, but above all love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection; what words have since... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made... | |
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