 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...with the advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...with the advantage of Shafcspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study j Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays,...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...with the advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially, being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...with the advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially, being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, 'all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a...judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his * As cypresses above the humble shrubs. plots. What value he had for him appears by the verses he wrote... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...with the advantage ot Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study. Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots What value he had for... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study. Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots -What value he had for... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...gifts, improved by study; Beaumont especially ' j^ being so accurate a judge of players, that Hen ej{ Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings...|,|| to his censure, and, it is thought, used his jmlg„' ment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. jjtt What value he had for him, appears... | |
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Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while he lived,... 
