 | 1871 - 502 pages
...House is not only competent, but has repeatedly manifested its anxiety to remove. Peel, HS 701 b. — Humour which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe. Dryden 214a. Da die englische Sprache aber eine der deutschen analoge Frageform hat, so las st sich... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1847 - 704 pages
...that they were above that standard.* • " Their plots were generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...; whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartces, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1847 - 492 pages
...better, whose wild debaucheries ami quickness of wit in repartees no poet before them could paint at they have done. Humour which Ben Jonson derived from...their business to describe , they represented all the pasrions very lively, but, above all. love. I am apt to believe the F.nglish language in them arrived... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...found in Shakspere was an agreeable thing to a licentious audience : " They " (Beaumont and Fletcher) ' understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...no poet before them could paint as they have done. . . . They represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love." The highest things in Shakspere... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...found in Shakspere was an agreeable thing to a licentious audience : "They" (Beaumont and Fletcher) " understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...no poet before them could paint as they have done. . . . They represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love." The highest things in Shakspere... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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...and they understood and imitated the conversation (manners) of gentlemen much better, whose wild debaucheries, add quickness of repartees, no poet can... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...conversation of gentlemen whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...; 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... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...highest perfection.' ' Their plots were generally moro regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better.' . . . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...highest perfection." " Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better. . . . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs... | |
 | 1873 - 822 pages
...highest perfection.' ' Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better.' . . . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs... | |
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