 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. That humour 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 been... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1887 - 522 pages
...gentlemen much better, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...the passions very lively, but, above all, love. I am apt to believe that the English language in them arrived to | its highest perfection ; what words have... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1887 - 526 pages
...Shakespeare's, specially those that 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 repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 pages
...those which were made before Beaumont's death * ; and they understood and imitated 1 treated of, A. the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in reparties, no poet before them could paint l as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...of wit in reparties, no poet before them could paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe : 5 they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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. Humour,14 which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 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 h:ive done." .Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...treated of."— ED.] i ' : 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... | |
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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... 
