...underftood and imitated the Converfation of Gentlemen much better; whofe wild Debaucheries, and quicknefs of Wit in Repartees, no Poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonfon deriv'd from particular Perfons, they made it not their Bufinefs to defcribe j they reprefented...

...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...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,...

...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...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,...

...Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular...

...Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood...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,...

...Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...,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...

...in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...comic talents on drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." This panegyric may sufficiently account for the preference given to their plays above all others in...

...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...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,...

...Man in his Humour: Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death: And they understood...better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wife in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from...