 | 1845 - 818 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 538 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... | |
 | 1845 - 838 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 358 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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