 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | 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,...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe:... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imi-tated the conversation of gentlemen...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
...more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...,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
...more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...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... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated I he- conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 pages
...comic talents on drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...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 - 712 pages
...more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...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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Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its... 
