 | 1845 - 816 pages
...were generally more regular than Shakspeare •s, especially those which were made before Beanmont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild debancheries and quickness of wit in repartee no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour,... | |
 | 1826 - 436 pages
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 | 1826 - 432 pages
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 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and tli.-y ure shoots Through the wrung bosom of the dying man,...His wife, his children, and Ын friends, unseen. tliey made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 516 pages
...Fletcher into esteem was Philaster — their plots are generally more regular than Shakspeare's — they understood and imitated the conversation of Gentlemen...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done — they represented all the passions very lively, but above all,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 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...imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better 5 whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 pages
...and Fletcher " understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better [than Shakespeare] ; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have donew." True it is that they painted such "gentlemen" excellently ; but Shakespeare would not have... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 638 pages
...Fletcher " understood and imitnte<l the conversation of gentlemen much better [than Shakespeare] ; whoso wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them • m'.I paint as they hare done"." True it is that they painted nucli "gentlemen" excellently ; but... | |
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Their plots were generally more regular than 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,... 
