 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...and were acted for one of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughFletcher. Qut t^e year, and he added that they ' ' understood and imitated the conversation...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,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in His Humor." 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. Humor, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 pages
...before he writ Every 5 Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in re- 10 partees, no poet can ever paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 pages
...before he writ Every 5 Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in re- 10 partees, no poet can ever paint1 as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived from... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...respects they excelled even Shakspere. ' They understood and imitated the conversation of gentleman much better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. I am apt to believe that the English language in them arrived to... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 pages
...better than Shakspere the conversation of gentlemen whose quickness of wit in repartee no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...persons, they made it not their business to describe." The work of both did much to weaken the blank verse which was brought into the drama by Gascoigne,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...debaucheries and quickness of wit in TOA.n. 1616] BEAUMONT AND I-LETCHER 503 repartees no poet can ever self to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled Parodise il not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively." So Beaumont and... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...before he writ " Every Man in His Humor. " 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. Humor, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...chamber-maid : Then throws her washings and dissemblings by, Aad vows nothing but ingenuity.1 1 In, gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and...repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done."1 In the days of James I., according to Donne, To be like the Court was a play's praise ; and... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 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...and they understood and imitated the conversation much better; whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet before them could paint... | |
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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,... 
