 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 pages
...and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humor, which Ben Jonsou derived from particular persons, they made it not...; they represented all the passions very lively." So Beaumont and Fletcher were praised by Dryden in the time of Charles II., when their plays were '... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 526 pages
...wild debaucheries, add quickness of repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have none. That humour1 which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...describe : they represented all the passions very lively (in a very lively manner), but, above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 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...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...of their plays were acted for one of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughout the year, and he added, that they " understood and imitated the conversation of...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done." Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1887 - 522 pages
...in His Humour. Their plots I were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, specially those ithat 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 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 death * ; and they understood and imitated 1 treated of, A. the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 208 pages
...of wit in reparties, no poet before them could paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe : 5 they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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. Humour,14 which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...of their plays were acted for one of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughout the year, and he added that they "understood and imitated the conversation of...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they h:ive done." .Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere,... | |
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