 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 pages
...treated of."— ED.] which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild...before them could paint* as they have done. Humour, t which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe : they... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 pages
...of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughout the year, and he added that 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." Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1895 - 488 pages
...conversation of gentlemen whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...; they represented all the passions very lively." So Beaumont and Fletcher were praised by Dryden in the time of Charles II., when their plays were "... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 pages
...and imitated the conversation of gentlerm n much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quick- 25 ness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint...the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am 30 apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection: what words have since... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 pages
...and imitated the conversation of gentlemc n much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quick- 25 ness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint...particular persons, they made it not their business to describei^hey represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am 30 apt to believe... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...Shakspere's or Jonson's throughFletcher. Qut t^e year, and he added that 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." Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humor, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 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. Humor, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
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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 before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular... 
