 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 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 debaucheries, and quickness of wit in re- 10 partees, no poet can ever paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 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 debaucheries, and quickness of wit in re- 10 partees, no poet can ever paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...respects they excelled even Shakspere. ' They understood and imitated the conversation of gentleman much better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. I am apt to believe that the English language in them arrived to... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 pages
...better than Shakspere the conversation of gentlemen whose quickness of wit in repartee no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...persons, they made it not their business to describe." The work of both did much to weaken the blank verse which was brought into the drama by Gascoigne,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...debaucheries and quickness of wit in TOA.n. 1616] BEAUMONT AND I-LETCHER 503 repartees no poet can ever self to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled Parodise il not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively." So Beaumont and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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;... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation much better; whose wild debaucheries and quickness...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... | |
 | 1903 - 402 pages
...quickness of wit in repartees, no Poet can ever paint as they have done. This Humour, which BEN. JOHNSON derived from particular persons ; they made it not...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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...chamber-maid : Then throws her washings and dissemblings by, Aad vows nothing but ingenuity.1 1 In, gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and...repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done."1 In the days of James I., according to Donne, To be like the Court was a play's praise ; and... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1904 - 240 pages
...Shakespeare or Jonson. His explanation is remarkable. It was because the later dramatists ' understood the conversation of gentlemen much better,' whose wild ' debaucheries and quickness of wit no poet can ever paint as they have done.' In a later essay he explains that the greater refinement... | |
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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... 
