...perfection than the French poets can reasonably hope to reach .... 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. The clue to an understanding of Restoration...

...Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death: and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better: whose wild...them could paint as they have done, Humour, which Ben |onson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe: they represented...

...hundred years. In comparison with Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher ' understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild...no poet before them could paint as they have done'. Or, in his lines to Congreve : In easie Diaiogue ь p/eíc/,er's praise : He mov'd the Mind, but had...

...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 repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. This humour of which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...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 repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. This humour, of which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...cit., 1971, vol. XVII, p. 48), nella seconda edizione l'ultima parte viene sostituita da "whose wilde debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no Poet before them could paint as they have done" (Ibid., p. 56) 23 "The Defence of the Epilogue or, An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age",...