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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... "
A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors - Page 120
by Manual - 1809
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und ..., Volume 45; Volume 47

1871 - 502 pages
...House is not only competent, but has repeatedly manifested its anxiety to remove. Peel, HS 701 b. — Humour which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe. Dryden 214a. Da die englische Sprache aber eine der deutschen analoge Frageform hat, so las st sich...
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Specimens of the British Critics

John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pages
...Shakspeare'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 repartee no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular...
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Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers

Bits - 1847 - 88 pages
...Slinkspeare'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...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth ..., Volume 2

Henry Hallam - 1847 - 490 pages
...better, whose wild debaucheries ami quickness of wit in repartees no poet before them could paint at they have done. Humour which Ben Jonson derived from...their business to describe , they represented all the pasrions very lively, but, above all. love. I am apt to believe the F.nglish language in them arrived...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth ..., Volume 3

Henry Hallam - 1847 - 700 pages
...Shakspeare'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 repartces, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...agreeable thing to a licentious audience : " They" (Beaumont and Fleteher) "understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...no poet before them could paint as they have done. . . . They represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love." The highest things in Shakspere...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...Shakspere'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 7arrived to its highest perfection : what words have since...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...agreeable thing to a licentious audience : "They" (Beaumont and Fletcher) " understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...no poet before them could paint as they have done. . . . They represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love." The highest things in Shakspere...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...whose wild debaucheries, add quickness of repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have none. That humour ' which Ben Jonson derived from particular...describe : they represented all the passions very lively (in a very lively manner), but, above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...Shakspeare'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...
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