 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...,whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in iv 'partees, no poet before them eould paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 pages
...comic talents on drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." This panegyric may sufficiently account for the preference given... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...before he wrote Every Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated I he- conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood...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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 720 pages
...Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood...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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...Man in his Humour: Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death: And they understood...better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wife in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...regular than '' ul!; Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and tUey understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...better, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. That humour which Ben Jonson derived from particular... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in his Humour." . Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, HO poet before them could paint as they have \ done. Humour, which Een. Jonson derived from particular... | |
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