 | Orie Latham Hatcher - 1905 - 142 pages
...of Types. Dryden was right, so far as Fletcher is concerned, when he said of Beaumont and Fletcher, "Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular...persons they made it not their business to describe." 6 At the same »III, 2. •Ill, 2. •Ill, 2. • ' nv, i. •IV, 1. ; ; time it is true that Fletcher's... | |
 | Orie Latham Hatcher - 1905 - 128 pages
...of Types. Dryden was right, so far as Fletcher is concerned, when he said of Beaumont and Fletcher, "Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons they made it not their business to describe."8 At the same 'III, 2. 'Ill, 2. 'Ill, 2. MV, 1. 'IV, 1. 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy, ed. Scott-Saintsbury,... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...say that he [Jonson] wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.' 'They [Beaumont and Fletcher] understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done.' Buckingham, in the Rehearsal, 1671, act iii. sc. i, echoes Shadwell's... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1910 - 558 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,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1911 - 522 pages
...chamber-maid \ Then throws her washings and dissemblings by, And vows nothing but ingenuity. l i Ingenuousness gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and...no poet before them could paint as they have done." 1 In the days of James L, according to Donne, To be like the Court was a play's praise ; and all the... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1416 pages
...conversation of gentlemen whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit io repartees no poet can evtr point as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived...; 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 "the... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1914 - 502 pages
...Shakespeare, " they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen [of contemporary fashion] much better; whose wild debaucheries and quickness...no poet before them could paint as they have done." 1 For the Bakers and their connections, see Hasted, Hist. Kent, III, 77; IV, 374, ct seq.; VII, 100-101... | |
 | 1914 - 770 pages
...the new King from that of KlizabefTT Comparing" Beaumont and Fletcher with Shakespeare, Dryden says, "they understood and imitated the conversation of...better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartee no poet can ever paint as they have done." And the plays of which Dryden is thinking were... | |
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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,... 
