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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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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

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,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

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...
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Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

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...
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The works of Beaumont & Fletcher, with notes and a memoir by A. Dyce, Volume 10

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...
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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of ...

Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 618 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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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made hefore Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much hetter ; whose wild dehaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet hefore them could paint...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 842 pages
...before he writ ' Every Man in his Humour." Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially th'ose which were made before Beaumont's...better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartee no Eoet before them could paint as they ave done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...Ыоге he writ ' Every Man in his Hunn.ar.' Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...of gentlemen much better, whose wild debaucheries ~.0'\ quickness of wit in repartee no ¡'«•t before them could paint as they Uve done. Humour, which...
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Specimens of the British Critics

John Wilson - 1846 - 360 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...better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartee no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular...
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