 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1914 - 500 pages
...he attributes the regularity of their joint-plots to Beaumont's influence; and reports that even " Ben Jonson while he lived submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots." This tradition of... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1914 - 502 pages
...and reports that even " Ben Jonson while he lived submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots." This tradition of Fletcher as creator and Beaumont as critic continued for generations, only occasionally... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by shapes and shrieks and sights unholy ! Find out some...spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sin 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...the advantage [бо of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by boy Shall smile away my maiden blame among The Hebrew...Leaving the dance and song, 216 "Leaving the olive-gard 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots. What value he had for... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by -V*W* X) # & $ + -] 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 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... | |
 | Jesse Franklin Bradley - 1922 - 486 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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 pages
..."so accurate a judge of plays" that even Jonson "submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting if not contriving all his plots." Aubrey no doubt exaggerated when he said "Master Beaumont's main business was to correct the overflowings... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by s weary. The exceeding beauty of the earth, in her...splendour of life, yields a new thought with every petal. 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
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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,... 
