 | William Harmon - 2003 - 566 pages
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 | John Dryden - 312 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...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,... | |
 | John Dryden
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 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1969 - 428 pages
...was only repeating a commonplace when he said, comparing Beaumont and Fletcher with Shakespeare, that 'they understood and imitated the conversation of...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done.' The morality of their plays, bad as it may seem to us in some cases,... | |
 | 600 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... | |
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 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1873 - 810 pages
...were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Веaптoгл death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better.' . . . Their plays an now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two o: theirs... | |
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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,... 
