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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,... "
Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers - Page 32
by Bits - 1847 - 72 pages
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The Major Works

John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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...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,...
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Classic Writings on Poetry

William Harmon - 2003 - 566 pages
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John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets

Claude Julien Rawson, Aaron Santesso - 2004 - 312 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature 1879, Volume 3

Robert Chambers - 2004 - 428 pages
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Essay Of Dramatick Poesie

John Dryden - 2004 - 60 pages
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Shakespeare: una "Tempesta" dopo l'altra

Laura Di Michele - 2005 - 380 pages
...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",...
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Beaumont: The Dramatist - A Portrait

Charles Mills Gayley - 2007 - 476 pages
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Brief History of English and American Literature

Henry A. Beers - 2007 - 392 pages
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Essays of John Dryden

John Dryden - 2008 - 404 pages
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Francis Beaumont, Dramatist: A Portrait

Charles Mills Gayley - 2008 - 472 pages
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